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Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by navels »

Pertains to user scripts injected by MV3 extensions. Noticed this when my Tampermonkey extension updated today with this message:

Enabling developer mode will soon become mandatory for running userscripts via Tampermonkey.

Not a big deal for me, I have extension dev mode on all the time, but ymmv.

Some discussion here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by zlg_codes »

Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software. There isn't a single business on this planet qualified to tell me how my computing should be. If I want Hannah Montana GIFs on every form element then damnit I should have the ability to do it.

Any browser that gets between me and control over what comes over the wire, or the filesystem, is obsolete and user hostile.

Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by mkl »

Currently I maintain a user script for myself and about 10 much-less-technical colleagues, which they install with Violent Monkey. With this change the ones who use Chrome will need to enable extension developer mode. Are there consequences to that, or is it just an extra step?

Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by [deleted] »

zlg_codes wrote: post #3

Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software. There isn't a single business on this planet qualified to tell me how my computing should be. If I want Hannah Montana GIFs on every form element then damnit I should have the ability to do it. Any browser that gets between me and control over what comes over the wire, or the filesystem, is obsolete and user hostile.

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Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by [deleted] »

zlg_codes wrote: post #3

Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software. There isn't a single business on this planet qualified to tell me how my computing should be. If I want Hannah Montana GIFs on every form element then damnit I should have the ability to do it. Any browser that gets between me and control over what comes over the wire, or the filesystem, is obsolete and user hostile.

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Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by porridgeraisin »

mkl wrote: post #4

Currently I maintain a user script for myself and about 10 much-less-technical colleagues, which they install with Violent Monkey. With this change the ones who use Chrome will need to enable extension developer mode. Are there consequences to that, or is it just an extra step?

Just an extra step, it's a single toggle in about:extensions. Bonus: it let's them use extensions on their filesystem instead of only the chrome webstore.

Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by RockRobotRock »

navels wrote: post #2

Pertains to user scripts injected by MV3 extensions. Noticed this when my Tampermonkey extension updated today with this message: Enabling developer mode will soon become mandatory for running userscripts via Tampermonkey. Not a big deal for me, I have extension dev mode on all the time, but ymmv. Some discussion here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

They already make it hard enough that you need to get an extension to run extensions. That's so lame.

Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by weikju »

zlg_codes wrote: post #3

Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software. There isn't a single business on this planet qualified to tell me how my computing should be. If I want Hannah Montana GIFs on every form element then damnit I should have the ability to do it. Any browser that gets between me and control over what comes over the wire, or the filesystem, is obsolete and user hostile.

> Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software.

Then don't wait to jump ship, you know where things are going.. Otherwise you'll just get used to this latest round of user-hostile moves, then the next time you'll say the same thing after this is normalized.. and so on...

Re: Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode

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Post by chii »

navels wrote: post #2

Pertains to user scripts injected by MV3 extensions. Noticed this when my Tampermonkey extension updated today with this message: Enabling developer mode will soon become mandatory for running userscripts via Tampermonkey. Not a big deal for me, I have extension dev mode on all the time, but ymmv. Some discussion here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

It simply puts up friction for the non-technical user from adopting these user scripts. The stated goal of google is to prevent malware from extensions, but i suspect the real goal is of course, prevent the browser from being changed by the user in a way that google doesn't like.
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