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Firefox 154 ships the sandbox manifest key. Chrome 153 blocks user scripts from privileged renderers and asks you to reload after site-access changes.
Mozilla's W3C proposal puts AI agent permissions on the browser's extension model. I counted that model at scale: 300,503 extensions, 12,277 already pulled.
AMO now builds Firefox add-ons from source. Chrome 152 beta brings a badge cap and a tighter browser namespace.
Chrome 151 deletes every remaining MV2 flag. Messaging gets structured clone. setBadgeText is capped at 100 bytes.
CWS data-minimisation rules enforce August 1. Firefox 153 ships tomorrow. Firefox and Safari just lined up behind COOP/COEP for extension pages.
Chrome Web Store yanks remaining MV2 listings on August 31. AI-agent permissions landed at W3C. The MV2 preference storage is already deleted in Chromium.
Chrome Web Store opens to 120+ countries, Firefox 153 ESR is two weeks out, and W3C still can't agree a cap on unlimitedStorage. Here's what actually matters.
The unlimitedStorage permission lets extensions hoard data on your disk with no cap. ~687M users are exposed — and W3C is debating a limit on July 2, 2026.