Chrome extension no longer supported

[nullromo]

Chrome recently changed their security guidelines or something and we got this:

The extension still works (I used it to create this issue), but maybe there's something that should change in order to keep up to date securitywise. I think it has to do with this.

[glacambre]

Hi, thanks for the report. This is indeed caused by the need to migrate to Manifest V3 ( #1193 ). Unfortunately I have very little time to work on Firenvim these days, so I doubt I'll manage to do it anytime soon :(.

[jonathanmorris180]

Looks like it was automatically removed from my Chrome and I can't add it back: 😢

[Crackerfracks]

This deals a legitimate and significant blow to my motivation to continue learning to code, as I used it to replace the crappy "vim" mode in web editors on sites teaching coding. I hope this magical extension is revived soon. Thank you for everything @glacambre.

[alerque]

@Crackerfracks Consider using a different web browser. It isn't just Firenvim affected, other good extensions are affected too and the reason is Google is removing APIs that don't fit their agenda. A case study is ublock-origin. Sure there are other ad blockers that work with manifest v3, but while they may block some adds they don't block Google's ability to track users and correlate traffic to users across sites and devices to nearly the same degree. At some point you have to ask yourself if your interests as an end user are in line with the way you are the product. I suggest using a browser where you still have some agency as a user and the motivating factor for the developers has more in common with your own for using it.

[nullromo]

@alerque It's kind of a hard sell when 60%+ of the world uses Google Chrome and only 6-7% Firefox and Edge combined. Shame about the policy change though. And I fear that if glacambre doesn't have the time to make the required updates, then nobody else will have the motivation either.

[nullromo]

The extension still works

Not anymore after today's update :(

[mayushii21]

very sad news :(

[LyraMoonDev]

you can still get it working when u install it from this github as a developer extension
follow the build & install instructions

otherwise you have to wait for an updated manifest sadly

[nullromo]

In my browser, activating the extension just turns the input field into a black box unfortunately.

[sharpchen]

strangely it was black-boxed in librewolf(a firefox-based browser) too

[obsidian33]

I moved to Vivaldi as my main browser and it still works there.

[martian17]

I managed to get it working after installing it manually based on CONTRIBUTING.md
Here are the steps I followed:

1. Install the associated Neovim package, assuming you already have Neovim itself setup.
   In my case, I use LazyVim.

~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/firevim.lua:

return {
  "glacambre/firenvim"
}

2. Clone and build this project

git clone https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
cd firenvim
npm install
npm run build
npm run install_manifests

3. Install the compiled extension
   Go to chrome://extensions, enable "Developer mode", click on Load unpacked and select the new directory created by the build script under target/chrome in the cloned repository.

[nullromo]

I removed the extension, cloned the repo in WSL, ran the setup steps, then coped the target/chrome folder into my Windows file system, then used "Load unpacked." Chrome still thinks the extension is not supported, the icon shows a yellow background, and when I try to turn an input into a neovim iframe, it just flickers a bit or does nothing.

Yellow backgronud:

[qu8n]

@martian17 Chrome might have gotten stricter. I followed the steps you shared and unfortunately got this error:

Cannot install extension because it uses an unsupported manifest version.
Could not load manifest

Looks like Chrome users will have to either use an older Chrome version, use another browser, or wait until the contributors can update the manifest.

[HappyCthulhu]

Brooo, your extension is literally the best for me. If you will find time to find it - that would be very cool