- Awesome Cookie Manager
- ClearURLs
- Disable HTML Autoplay
- Google Search “View Image” Button
- Human Typing By Vikyp
- Pushbullet
- Short DAte Format Fix for Google Calendar…
- Social Fixer for Facebook
- Tabs Backup & Restore
- uBlock Origin
- Watch Later
note to self: figure out which browser to use for MV2 (Manifest Version 2) plugins and how to (re)install them
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
Edit 20250802:
Migrating from Chrome to Edge was way easier than anticipated: it imported my account, bookmarks and my extensions automagically. With one exception (uBlock Origin), most of them were enabled too, apart from a few that Edge needed extra permission confirmation for and the ones that Chrome had disabled. All of these could be enabled/installed after installing uBlock Origin manually.
Then I had go to through the tedious process of re-signing in various accounts (like mail, blogging, social media, etc).
These things did not import automatically and needed manual adjustment:
- Default JavaScript settings (I have that disabled by default, and enable this on a site per site base: too many advertisements hog my CPU, and too many information stealing attempts through advertisement networks); in Edge you configure this at
edge://settings/privacy/sitePermissions/allPermissions/javaScript - All open tabs: need to figure out a way to transfer those from Chrome to Edge.
- Search engine settings (including shortcuts): had to manually copy these over from
chrome://settings/searchEngines?search=searchtoedge://settings/privacy/services/search/searchEngines - Enable some extensions/features that got disabled or were not active at first:
- [Wayback/ArchiveBad]
ClearURLs (Microsoft Edge Store)
(essential to strip tracking data from URLs) - [Wayback/Archive]
Pushbullet (Chrome Web Store) for syncing data between smartphone and desktop - Google Lens (will expand on this later)
- [Wayback/Archive]
JSONView – Chrome Web Store
- [Wayback/Archive]
Gmail Show Time – Chrome Web Store (shows time in various Gmail views in addition to date)
- [Wayback/Archive]
Don’t add custom search engines – Chrome Web Store
- [Wayback/Archive]
Eight Dollars – Chrome Web Store
- [Wayback/Archive]
FadBlock Origin: Friendly YouTube™ Adblock – Chrome Web Store
- [Wayback/Archive]
KB SSL Enforcer – Chrome Web Store
- [Wayback/Archive] bluesky-shortcuts – Chrome Web Store
- [Wayback/Archive]
Archive Page (Microsoft Edge Store)
According to
edge://extensions/some of these are from the Chrome Web Store. At a later stage I will try find Microsoft Edge Store replacements. - [Wayback/ArchiveBad]
A positive surprise was that the settings for [Wayback/Archive] Paste It – Text Snippets – Chrome Web Store transferred without problems to [Wayback] Paste It – Text Snippets – Microsoft Edge Addons
Original post:
Chrome just blocked these useful plugins (the live links to the Chrome Web Store likely die later or are already dead; the archived links all work; the Microsoft Edge Store work for now):
- [Wayback/Archive] ClearURLs (Microsoft Edge Store)
- [Wayback/Archive]
Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Chrome Web Store) - [Wayback/Archive]
Google Search “View Image” Button (Chrome Web Store) - [Wayback/Archive]
Human Typing By Vikyp (Chrome Web Store) - [Wayback/Archive] Pushbullet (Chrome Web Store)
- [Wayback/Archive]
Short Date Format Fix For Google Calendar™ (Chrome Web Store) - [Wayback/Archive]
Social Fixer for Facebook (Microsoft Edge Store) - [Wayback/Archive]
Tabs Backup & Restore (Chrome Web Store) - [Wayback/Archive]
uBlock Origin (Microsoft Edge Store) - [Wayback/Archive]
Watch Later (Chrome Web Store)
Will add links to them later.
Need to figure out which browser still supports these for a while, and what alternatives there are.
Note that:
- Firefox is not an alternative: it has architectural asynchronous keyboard/mouse input issues on all platforms I tested (MacOS/Windows/Linux) which makes it unworkable for me.
- Safari does not have the plugins I need plus lacks a lot of keyboard support.
Oh, it disabled these extensions as well:
[Wayback/Archive] ActiveGS – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] ADB – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] Bookmark My Tabs – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] ColumnCopy – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Chrome Web Store)
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] IPP / CUPS printing for Chrome & Chromebooks – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] Mymail-Crypt for Gmail™ – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension contains malware
[Wayback/Archive] Search Plus – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
Off • This extension hasn’t published privacy practices, such as how it collects and uses data
[Wayback/Archive] Watch Later – Chrome Web Store
Off • This extension was unpublished by its developer
Earlier this year
This was my list in March 2025: [Wayback/Archive] MacOS Google Chrome: 11 extensions were turned off · GitHub
Archive Today again URL
https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmicrosoftedge.microsoft.com%2Faddons%2Fdetail%2Fublock-origin%2Fodfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
works without escaping as well:
https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/clearurls/mdkdmaickkfdekbjdoojfalpbkgaddei
Related
Some assorted links while researching this are below.
What lead me into switching browsers:
- [Wayback/Archive] “This extension was turned off because it is no longer supported” at DuckDuckGo
- [Wayback/Archive] “This extension was turned off because it is no longer supported” – Bing Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “This extension was turned off because it is no longer supported” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin no longer supported by Chrome? : chrome
- [Wayback/Archive] pushbullet enable in chrome at DuckDuckGo
- [Wayback/Archive] Why is my Chrome saying the Pushbullet Extension is no longer supported? : PushBullet
- [Wayback/Archive] 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) : chrome
On browser choice:
- [Wayback/Archive] Browsers Committed to MV2 Support at DuckDuckGo
- [Wayback/Archive] Edge on MacOS is actually much better than Chrome! : MicrosoftEdge
It’s quick, snappy, supports all Chrome extensions, it uses less RAM, it’s got Picture-in-Picture. It’s really good!
Plus, for Touch Bar MacBooks, Edge makes MUCH better use of it than Chrome. Chrome only has static buttons that stay there, meanwhile Edge has a tab switcher and video scrubber like Safari.
This is actually really cool. I really like Safari’s usage of the Touch Bar, but it’s buggy over there with stuff getting messed up and out of order. Sometimes the Pause/Play button disappears 🤨.
Overall really satisfied with Microsoft Edge. Great browser!
…
Totally agree. Better than Safari as well (better features and more stable). Happily using Edge as my daily driver on macOS and Windows.
Note this was 3 years ago.
- [Wayback/Archive] 4 browsers that will continue to support uBlock Origin and other ad blockers with Manifest V2 mentioned Firefox (out for me: architectural async input handling issues on all platforms), Vivaldi (too small a team for me), Edge (which I have tried for now), Brave (too small a team for me)
- [Wayback/Archive] edge instead of chrome on macos at DuckDuckGo
- [Wayback/Archive] Latest manifest v2 compatible version – Browser Support – Brave Community
On uBlock Origin:
- [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin – Free, open-source ad content blocker.
- [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin Lite – Chrome Web Store which I have installed in all my Chrome instances that I have not converted to Edge yet
--jeroen
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