I wouldn't publicly admit to doing things like this. Willingly foregoing updates for internet-connected software (especially your web user agent) is considered harmful.

You could be using Firefox with MV2 extensions instead which would sound far less ridiculous than "I am using Vivaldi (Chromium) while refusing to (ever) update it"

I checked it, and 8.1, 8.2 and the latest 8.3 all support Mv2 extensions (tested with uBlock Origin, uMatrix and some other niche extensions I use). Don't know where you got the info about 8.0 being the last to support mv2, but it's clearly wrong :D

> Don't know where you got the info about 8.0 being the last to support mv2

I updated to whatever the next version was, and it disabled all my MV2 extensions (mainly uBO). I figured that they kept MV2 support going as long as they could, and there was recently a patch by Google that removed the support for good, so that must be the end of it. So I downgraded back.

Did you have to do anything to reenable MV2 extensions? Or maybe it was a just bug they fixed later?

This was true, temporarily with some snapshot builds, for whatever reason. At some point MV2 extensions started to work again. That said, I imagine there will be a point where keeping MV2 working would be untenable. I seem to remember reading something that indicated that that was why they were beefing up the internal ad-blocker.

Ok so I updated to 8.3 and indeed uBO still works, so it must've been a bug. Thanks for pointing this out.

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