[TruskawkaNaTorcie]

Tutorial on how to Enable Manifest V2 extensions for another year (until June 2025) such as Ublock Origin on Windows using the registry editor (regedit)

The official page from google on how to enable this policy isn't very well put together, omitting on which folder in the registry to add this key in. Even if you haven't used the windows registry before, I will try to be as concise as possible on where to click and what to type.

Open up the registry editor, you can do so by either pressing start and typing in "Regedit" or pressing the key combo "Windows Key + R" and typing in there "Regedit", either way will take you to the same place.

Within the regedit window, there are two important parts, left is the hierachy of all the keys and folders, and right the display of keys within a folder, this will be useful later, but first, on the left there are a bunch of folders each starting with HKEY. We need to go to HKEYLOCALMACHINE, simply click on the arrow to the left of it and it will expand the folders inside of it downwards.

Locate the folder called SOFTWARE and click on the arrow to the left of it.

Locate the folder called Policies and click on the arrow to the left of it.

Here is where it gets tricky, by default this folder doesn't exist on most computers, so what you'll want to do now, is to right click on the folder which you've just expanded with the arrow, in this case it's "Policies", Right click on policies and in the right click menu, hover over the option called "New", and on the right there click "Key", This is going to create a new folder under Policies which we've just expanded, name it "Google" (without quotes), and press enter.

Now, right click on the "Google" folder you've just made and repeat the new key process from earlier, right click on the "Google" folder, new > key, and this time name it "Chrome" and press enter.

The other tutorial I saw on here didn't mention this, but now you have to click (not right click) once on the folder "Chrome" which you've just made to highlight it and move your cursor in the right part of Regedit where there should already be a default blank key called "Default", don't touch it though, you'll make another.

With the "Chrome" folder highlighted and cursor on the right side of regedit, Right click once and in this context menu click on New and then choose "DWORD (32-bit Value)", After you've clicked it, it'll create a new key, now rename it as "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" (without quotes) and press enter.

After that's done, now right click on the "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" key you've just created on the right side of regedit and click "Modify", now another window has popped up, allowing you to change the value of this key, make sure the toggle on the right is set as "Hexadecimal" and then on the left where it says "Value Data" you enter in that small box just the number "2". Now just click ok, and after restarting chrome, you should be able to see in "chrome://policies" which you enter in your address bar that this new policy has been enabled, one downside to it, is that you'll always have the annoying nag text reminding you that chrome is "Managed by your organization", which triggers the moment you add any policy, but it's harmless and can be ignored.

The other tutorial i've found does not mention that this needs to go in HKEYLOCALMACHINE, instead leaving the user to find out where it needs to go where there are at least 2 more software folders in the other keys. I used this person's tutorial, I simply just expanded on it making it easier to understand for those who don't know how to use Regedit. https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1d49ud1/manifest_v2_phaseout_begins/l6wwkx9/

gorhill's post on this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2977#discussioncomment-8134456

Google's page on this policy: https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#ExtensionManifestV2Availability

Alternatively, another easy way of enabling with less regedit fiddling is to create a .reg file with this in it. Simply open up notepad and paste this bit of code and save it as a .reg file and double click it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]
"ExtensionManifestV2Availability"=dword:00000002
Edit: Courtesy of /u/cat-machine here is how you enable it on MacOS, I can't verify if this works, but I'll add it to the main post for making it more accessible

Open terminal.app and paste one of the following:

Chrome

defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2

Chrome Beta

defaults write com.google.Chrome.beta.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2

Brave

defaults write com.brave.Browser.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2

Brave Beta

defaults write com.brave.Browser.beta.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2

#internet #ciekawostki #technologia

[NowyStaryMirek]

@TruskawkaNaTorcie co to za spam