Safari 27's four web extension upgrades — and our forecast missed them
Safari 27 web extensions get runtime.getDocumentId(), user-gesture propagation, a tabId for windows.create and error reporting. What landed, what to do.
Maxim Kosterin
6 min read
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Chrome 154 landed MV3's lost-event fix — for up to 276,820 Chrome extensions that can't use it yet
Chrome 154 shipped the async_listener_registration manifest key for MV3 service workers. Here's what landed, who it covers, and why you shouldn't switch yet.
Maxim Kosterin
7 min read
Mozilla wants AI agents to inherit the extension permission model — I counted what that model looks like at scale
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.
Maxim Kosterin
7 min read
Firefox is about to make file access opt-in — here's what breaks on July 21
Firefox 153 makes extension file access opt-in from July 21 — even for add-ons you already installed. We found 842 Firefox add-ons that request file:// access.
Maxim Kosterin
6 min read
Chrome's native browser namespace: what cross-browser extension devs should do now
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.
Maxim Kosterin
5 min read