Two years after Google proposed and adopted changes to its web browser extension framework, Firefox is ready to follow suit, but with one exception.
Collectively known as Manifest v3, the changes addressed many of the security issues with the browser’s existing framework, which allowed extensions to undo the browser’s security model and grab sensitive data.
While Manifest v3 created incompatibilities between Chrome and Firefox, the latter decided to wait and watch the evolution of the framework before adopting it.
