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So Long, Firefox, Part One
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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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As I understand it, there were genuine security reasons for Manifest v3. Browser extensions are a great vector for malware and under manifest v2 it was very easy to sneakily distribute that malware ... or something.
Honestly I didn't look into it that much because I'd use Firefox either way.