For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.
What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.
How so? I’ve been using Firefox for years. Started trying Brave the other day and it’s extremely resource heavy. With a few background tabs it runs like shit on a Pixel 10 Pro XL and i7-10510 running EndeavourOS with 32GB. I also have a Pixel 8 Pro running Graphene and it also runs like shit there. I haven’t been impressed with legit Brave, now hearing a malware claim is kinda funny.
They have pulled quite a few shenannigans. Vivaldi is clean as a whistle so far. Also, based in Europe, and developed by the original Opera (Chinese owned now) developers, which have a great record.
Yeah it’s resource heavy because it’s malware. 90% of what does is record your entire browser usage in order to better send ads at you.