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A hands-on Manifest V3 tutorial: use the chrome.management API and Chrome's own permission warnings to audit every extension installed. Full runnable code.
Your content script runs once on YouTube and never again. Fix Chrome extension SPA navigation with webNavigation — or without a new permission. Full MV3 code.
chrome.scripting.executeScript end to end: inject on click with activeTab, pass args safely, and choose ISOLATED or MAIN world. Full MV3 code, ~25 min.
Chrome extension optional permissions, end to end: install with no warning, then request topSites and a single host at runtime. Full MV3 code, ~25 minutes.
Build a Manifest V3 Chrome extension that blocks trackers and strips tracking parameters with declarativeNetRequest — full runnable code, ~30 minutes.
MV3 service workers have no DOM. Build a Chrome extension that parses HTML and writes to the clipboard from an offscreen document — runnable code, ~25 min.
MV3 kills setInterval. Build a Chrome extension background job with chrome.alarms that survives service worker termination — full runnable code, ~20 min.
A hands-on Manifest V3 tutorial: build a Chrome extension side panel that persists across tabs, then make it per-site. Full runnable code, ~25 minutes.
A disabled extension can't clear its uninstall URL (setUninstallURL) before removal — the service worker is already dead. Here's why, and the server-side fix.
Chrome added a native, promise-based browser.* namespace in 148. Across the 235,887 Chrome extensions we track, here's what it changes — and what to do.
Everyone said Chrome's Manifest V2 deadline would kill ad blockers. Here's what the sunset actually stranded — and why Firefox is now the MV2 refuge.
Google accidentally exposed an unfixed Chromium service worker flaw that keeps background scripts running after you close the browser. Here's how to stay safe.
A peer-reviewed study found Manifest V3 ad blocking matches MV2 effectiveness. Here's what declarativeNetRequest really changes if you build content filters.
WXT, Plasmo, CRXJS, Extension.js, and Bedframe — five browser extension frameworks compared by build time, bundle size, and maintenance health in 2026.