Today, several update reminders popped up. Just in time for the macOS 15.6 update, Chrome took advantage of the restart and soared to 139.
This also means that the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will no longer be effective.
Google Chrome (Linux, Mac, Windows) from version 110 to version 138
Year after year, half a year after half a year, finally this endless August has arrived.
To be honest, there aren't many plugins that I absolutely need; only uBlock Origin makes me feel a bit nostalgic.
Because my heart, a long, long time ago, I can't remember how long ago, when Firefox transitioned to manifest, was already thoroughly hurt. Back then, Firefox was still using .xpi, and I was still on XP, which was still relatively normal.
Well, actually I was already using Windows 7 at that time. Emmmm, okay, my XP was already quite wild back then.
But Firefox was indeed using .xpi, the proper XPCOM. My primary browser back then was Firefox. I feel that I have a strong connection with Firefox. At that time, I was still very young, and Firefox was also very young; my mind was simple, and Firefox was also single-threaded; I was inherently traditional, and XPCOM is not much older than me. It was truly perfect, a must-have for Shandong men, a browser exclusively for the rooted and red Confucian.
At that time, the internet was not very closed, but it had already begun to close. Many secret recipe plugins were still spread through compressed packages on forums—first, Mozilla's store network was occasionally blocked; second, many small workshop products were not listed in the store; third, some large workshop products were surprisingly paid, which would inevitably be shared by the big shots of small workshops and forums; fourth, it was also the fault of Babita, when many plugins were not localized, the Bodhisattvas would localize them and share them on forums.
To be honest, if you ask me which plugins I miss the most from that period, I really can't say, after all, it was over ten years ago! On one hand, many things have had successors, like Tampermonkey, ad filtering, proxy switching, etc. These main tools have either changed form or changed faces, continuing to accompany us.
The companionship in the gentle countryside is actually the best way to forget.
The most memorable one has to be Hackbar. I think somewhere in the corner of my hard drive, there must still be a cracked, localized enhanced version of Hackbar, but it will never have the chance to be loaded again. I actually started using Hackbar after entering university. Riding the spring breeze of network security and CTF, I was able to be quite proud for a while. Now, whenever I recall that time, when I had a bit of money but not much, when everyone was a bit scheming but not too much (actually, it was my single-threaded dullness), when I was a bit busy and a bit sleepy going to class every afternoon, I miss myself and also reminisce about the training classroom where I first installed Hackbar, and the times with Brother Mouse and other teammates. Now Hackbar is gone, XPCOM is gone, and MV2 is also going to be gone. The nights spent secretly watching the new girls in the training classroom are also gone.
I am actually reflecting because at that time, I wasn't very skilled with Hackbar, nor with Burp. Even today, I am still not very skilled. If I had been more proficient back then, would my later days have been completely different? Perhaps I would have successfully taken down some missile launch system, rewriting everything that followed.
Another one has to be Firebug. When I first learned to write web pages following PHP100, I also stumbled upon Firebug and found it very useful. It gradually turned me into a UI enthusiast (standing out among a bunch of somewhat ugly and skeletal PHP web pages), allowing me to eat from today's rice bowl. Let's say thank you to Firebug! Most of Firebug's functions have already migrated to Firefox DevTools and Chrome DevTools, but I still miss that clunky Firebug immensely.
Ah, people always grow up. As people grow up, the environment also changes. After Firefox 57, I actually became a relic for a long time, using some third-party versions, continuing to use my beloved .xpi files. One day, I don't even remember which day it was, I gradually started to turn to Chrome. Perhaps after growing up, the memory also expanded, allowing me to hold more things in my heart, thus accommodating Chrome.
The promotion of MV3 this time has actually been much simpler and smoother, without facing too much resistance, after all, this is already an era of mobility, and Google has become a giant Google, no longer the simple no evil company I dreamed of working for as a child. Browsers are no longer the only entry point to the internet, gradually becoming something that is laborious and thankless. Google has to face competition for traffic from ByteDance and has long been decisive on browser issues.
It should end; everything should end. The bloated memory, the bloated warehouse, the bloated code, all should end.