Dear Maintainer,

The latest upgrade of chromium considers the ublock plugin unsupported.

I was able to re-enable following the instructions in a comment here:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/3563

ie enable:

chrome://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m133

Restart the browser, then disable:

chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-warning
chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-disabled
chrome://flags/#extension-manifest-v2-deprecation-unsupported

And enable:

chrome://flags/#allow-legacy-mv2-extensions

and restart the browser, -- apparently that will only work until June

Is there a replacement planned?

I confirm this workaround works...


I'm not sure there is a way to replace ublock-origin, given that
manifest v2 is going away...


Perhaps we need to have brave browser in Debian as an alternative?

For now, enabling Developer Mode in Chromium's Extensions Settings page also works. This is actually mentioned by the browser itself, you just need to pay attention and follow its instructions.

Best,
Ximin

Pedro Ribeiro:

This package should be removed from trixie since it doesn't work without
workarounds.  As mentioned, these workarounds are only temporary anyway and
will likely be irrelevant by release time.
v2 is going away...

The alternative for chromium is ublock-origin-lite however it's too late to
get new packages into trixie as far as I know.

Debian already offers an alternative browser, it's called Firefox, and
there is already webext-ublock-origin-firefox working fine.

I think it makes more sense to keep webext-ublock-origin-chromium because a
sensible workaround exists for now. Also there might be an effort to port
ublock-origin to newer Chromium versions in a few months and then we could just
upgrade it in stable via a point release. It would be more of a hassle if we
had to re-introduce the binary package then again.

That's correct. I have to look into ublock-origin-lite and if we want to bundle
the sources with the normal ublock-origin or switch to it entirely or create a
separate source package for it. That's something for the next release cycle.

Right. webext-ublock-origin-firefox works fine and Firefox isn't a bad
alternative either.