Migrate from manifest version 2

[forsureitsme]

When loading the unpacked extension, Chrome 99.0.4844.82 x64 throws an "error" about the manifest version being deprecated. It will be removed in 2023.

More details at https://developer.chrome.com/blog/mv2-transition/

[masterflitzer]

i think that would be a good idea especially because the more promise-based APIs are really good for code quality, but i would wait for firefox support of manifest v3, last i checked it isn't there yet (not even a roadmap from mozilla)
wouldn't be good to support two different versions, particularly because v3 has quite some API changes

still, it would be possible promisify the extension in manifest v2 with this chrome polyfill from mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill

I am just writing my thoughts here because i am interested in the whole manifest thing, also it would be interesting to know if this extension is using any APIs that are being removed with manifest v3 and therefore would require a little more work to migrate (january 2023 is not that far away anymore)

[ImprovedTube]

Hi, we prepare. There are 100 000 extensions though who don't. So we look forward to help part of them in time, here: https://github.com/code-for-charity/manifest-v3
This can start just by some regex & replace lines.

Each predictable, necessary change can also enable us to do tons of (semi-)automatic git pull requests. Saving a lot of Dev-time in sum. This includes even/especially the easiest steps.
(Opened a repo for this cause in general too https://github.com/code-for-charity/Bulk-Contributor )

@code-for-charity/contributors - tagging for once as i believe all of you care about Browser Extensions in 2023
or what we can do to prevent many from working.

Problem i had already do that in some of repo of some extension i used to use ... who where abandoned by their owner
so we must start by finding interested people because if it's to lose our time (like i had for some) you will risk a rapid decrease of dev.

[ImprovedTube]

Hi! @BirdInFire exactly!

• for ImprovedTube we are half done. Can you check? (master repo version v4.0.1. hopefully missing little. since it works in Beta 3.1001) : Issue 1440 hide comments count [ +AND discussing the Project's Issue & Future.... ] youtube#1464 (comment)

• For this repo and every other extension, any notes will be better than nothing. (we have not even got any notes yet) - Yet a script only doing some easy or complex regex replacements might get far, in many cases(...?)

[urfausto]

wow this is huge. i hope it will make developing easier and faster, otherwise it will be nuts...