Google Is About to Delete some of Your Favorite Chrome Extensions Forever, and There's No Going Back

Google Chrome will remove older Manifest V2 extensions in August

The death of Manifest V2 extensions on Google Chrome has been going on for well over four years at this point, and the end finally has a date. August 31 is the official and complete end of older Chrome extensions.

Google is about to delete some of your favorite Chrome extensions forever, and there's no going back

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google will remove all older Manifest V2 extensions from Chrome Web Store next month. The only way to keep using these extensions is not to update Chrome past v138. There won’t be any way to restore the older extensions once they’re deleted from Chrome, even on v138 or older. Chrome v139 and newer only support faster, more efficient Manifest V3 extensions. For a few years now, Google has been wa…

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