That is taking place to quite a lot of Chrome extensions, so it is not focused to Selenium IDE or its builders.
Clicking the “Study extra” hyperlink within the posted picture will take you right here and present:
Unsupported extensions: To higher shield your privateness and safety, Chrome and the Chrome Internet Retailer require extensions to be up-to-date with new necessities. With this, Chrome might disable extensions that do not meet these necessities.
What are these necessities? It is known as “Google’s Manifest V3.”
Deprecation warnings began the summer time of 2024 and are persevering with. It’s as much as the extension developer to replace their extensions to the brand new Manifest V3 APIs, which usually higher helps up to date safety practices and velocity enhancements (that is what Google claims on this replace).
The precise technical updates are:
- Utilizing service staff. This could enable for higher useful resource (reminiscence, CPU, and so on) administration.
- A brand new technique to work together with community requests. Once more, that is supposed to assist with Chrome’s efficiency.
- No extra remotely hosted code. No surprises right here as quite a lot of app shops already block this. This follows trendy safety practices and ensures any code not bundled/shipped inside the extension itself is blocked.
It’s going to be as much as the Selenium builders to make sure they’re utilizing the up to date APIs. A dialogue about that is on Github. Selenium additionally runs an IRC channel, a Slack channel, and a Google group. Any of those might include extra info.
Finally, I might advocate transferring away from Selenium IDE and use Selenium WebDriver.
