v3 manifest migration ?

[aarthur92]

Hello, I have to say your extension is really great, it helps me save a lot of time while replaying long calls, thanks!

I've got one question tough, do you plan to migrate the extension to the v3 manifest?

Have a great day, thanks.

[vantezzen]

Hi, thanks for the nice words.

I definitely plan on upgrading to manifest V3 in the future, but AFAIK Firefox current doesn't support V3 yet and Chrome still allows it (as it was in the store before they enforced it).
So as long as Firefox doesn't support it, I'll try to stay on V2 to prevent needing to maintain both - or are any reasons upgrading sooner would be beneficial?

[aarthur92]

Actually, I would like to fork the extension to adapt it a bit to our use-case (google meet videos replay).
Unfortunately it seems that it's not possible anymore to submit v2 manifest extensions as Google will deprecate the v2 in favor of the v3 by January 2023 :/

[vantezzen]

As an update on this: Skip Silence v5 will not be fully compatible with MV3 due to technical limitations of the new platform, but can be compiled for MV3 with limited functionality.
v5 uses Plasmo as a base framework which would allow building an mv3 build by editing the target.

v5 also comes with improved site compatibility by using the chrome "tabCapture" API to get tab volume on a browser-level instead of running inside the website scope. Unfortunately, tabCapture is currently not fully compatible with MV3 as there isn't an environment where it can permanently run (w3c/webextensions#137, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66217882/properly-using-chrome-tabcapture-in-a-manifest-v3-extension). Due to this, the improved compatibility won't work with mv3 and I'll publish Skip Silence on mv2 until the issue is resolved.