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Comment on Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022

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Fear of this delayed my starting work on Browser Routr; let's me intercept clicks to send some sites to other browser.

In hindsight I don't think I need Manifest v2 on Chrome. Though I do need it on Firefox because of some quirks in their navigation API. And it's possible the nav APIs in Chrome or other Chromium browsers may need it someday, so still a loss IMO.

Seems like a useful extension! How do you get different browsers to open with an extension?

Native messaging allows modern web extensions to talk to a pre-authorized desktop app. That's what my competitors and I do. There are also some custom scheme tricks, though they would require rewriting markup IIRC.

Ah ok that makes more sense. And while I'm here, if you ever want to charge for paid features check out my project https://extensionpay.com

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