Prepare for WebExtension v3 Changes

[danfinlay]

Google is planning to make some changes to the WebExtension protocol, and the many changes are outlined in this document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPu6Wy4LWR66EFLeYInl3NzzhHzc-qnk4w4PX-0XMw8/edit#

Chromium issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2

We will need to make these changes to continue to be a working WebExtension.

When the migration details are ready to be public, they will be available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FZthsZHCxa-93QCmyhU08Ptlh3EGqbjuUlBPuvT5d-I/edit?usp=sharing

Currently blocked by the new protocol being in draft status and migration steps not yet public.

[Azier777]

What does T13-blocked mean

[danfinlay]

Please resist the urge to turn every issue into a critique of our internal organization methodology.

Many of our tags of category prefixes. You can ignore them.

I believe a usable v3 manifest build is coming soon, so we will be able to pursue this soon. @kumavis was looking at this recently.

I will also share An Open Letter to the Chrome Team About Their Proposed v3 Changes to the WebExtension Format.

[robertdavid010]

Has there been any update on this? I've been looking into this issue more in depth recently, it seems like the discussion didn't continue? Or where is the current discussion at?

[danfinlay]

The migration guide has been published, we are no longer blocked on beginning this conversion: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-migration/

[danfinlay]

An article on Firefox support for manifest v3

[Edison4mobile]

Hi, metamask team. you guys are planing to migrate manifest v3 soon?

[jpuri]

Here is document with implementation details: https://www.notion.so/6f394364046d426690471a977aec1e6f?v=6bb3deb1e14243a5b34b390ea3292dff&p=19063a3ee9af46c48f18bf8e8f7aa546

[sondreb]

@jpuri - Could that document be made public available?

Any additional information on the upgrade? It is now February 2022, that means it's less than one year until Chrome will stop working with Manifest V2 extensions.

[brad-decker]

Going to close this issue, we have prepared and are working on rolling out MV3 support for chrome. A new issue will be made to track towards Firefox support.