None of your comments have actually provided evidence for this assertion, and the previous update dated June 3rd 2024 says users will start seeing a warning. So when between June 3 and October 9 did Google start actually disabling MV2 extensions, and where was it publicized prior to their October 9 update?
> None of your comments have actually provided evidence for this assertion
It's not an assertion. It's simple reading comprehension. How else can you interpret this?
"Over the last few months, we have continued with the Manifest V2 phase-out. Currently the chrome://extensions page displays a warning banner for all users of Manifest V2 extensions. Additionally, we have started disabling Manifest V2 extensions on pre-stable channels. [paragraph break] We will now [emphasis mine] begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable."
> So when between June 3 and October 9 did Google start actually disabling MV2 extensions, and where was it publicized prior to their October 9 update?
I don't know if it was publicized, until now.
After all, when did they publicize that there would be a warning in Chrome stable? But there is a warning in Chrome stable. That started happening some time before this announcement.
So you literally don't know if it was news before now, but you're insisting on calling it "old news", apparently based solely on Google using past tense in their announcement.
> So you literally don't know if it was news before now, but you're insisting on calling it "old news"
That was just a figure of speech, which I don't wish to quibble over. I don't insist on using that phrase. The point, from the beginning, is that the HN submission title is not good.
It actually doesn't matter when exactly that Google began disabling MV2 extensions in Chrome canary, because what's the justification for focusing on canary in the submission title when the announcement says, "We will now begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"?
[EDIT:] I see that the submission title has now indeed been changed, so this argument has become redundant.
None of your comments have actually provided evidence for this assertion, and the previous update dated June 3rd 2024 says users will start seeing a warning. So when between June 3 and October 9 did Google start actually disabling MV2 extensions, and where was it publicized prior to their October 9 update?