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What will happen to Brave browser after the manifest change?
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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Out of interest, since Chromium is open source, is there anything stopping Opera, Edge, Brave, etc. just mantaining support for the old manifest? Like, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal for anything other than Chrome and Chromium.
When you do that you'd have to port every single security patch and new feature manually into your fork. And it gets even worse: Because you deviate from the original implementation you continue to use outdated code that nobody is patching at all.
So you can absolutely do that, but in a year you'll have your own browser with tons of security issues and no manpower to find and fix them.
Basically you'd be using an old browser version.