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SE Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Manif SV3 - JavaScript Extensions

In manifest V2, you'd be able to install an extension. Manif SV3 does away with that entirely presumably to deal with cross-site scripting because that's a pretty sensitive thing. So in manifest V3, all the JavaScript that runs has to come from the package extension. You can't load a third-party script from a remote website and have it run that. None of that's allowed anymore with the extension of you can run it in the sandbox but that's less useful.

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