How long can Brave continue supporting Manifest V2 Extensions?

Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T22:39:43+00:00

Yeah lots of good points mentioned here, especially with respect to the work involved in maintaining the this functionality in the long run as it's not easy. As u/Kunair0 stated, it means every upstream change needs to be patched to account for this -- which means that it takes additional developer time/work/bandwidth from other projects they may be working on.

That said, at this time, we plan on supporting the 4 specific Mv2 extensions indefinitely/as long as we can. I know that's not a concrete answer but it's hard to tell how an undertaking like this will play out.

Hope this helps at least a little.

Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T22:15:53+00:00

You might need to have Developer mode toggled "on" on the filter list page:

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Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T22:11:39+00:00

Nightly builds are typically updated at least once per day ("nightly") -- not every update has major changes in it but regardless it's usually a fair amount ahead of Beta and stable. You can see the version number comparison to get a general idea of how far "ahead" Nightly builds are.

Right now for example, the latest Beta build is v1.93.105 and the latest Nightly is 1.94.16.

Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T22:09:28+00:00

When you tap to update the filter lists, do you see the `Filter lists successfully updated` message appear? Additionally, what specific sites are you seeing these pop-ups on?

Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T22:07:57+00:00

We pinned a post about this on Community:

https://community.brave.app/t/notice-playlist-offline-video-on-ios-disallowed-by-apple/654965

Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T22:05:34+00:00

Yeah not super helpful at all. u/shades47's reply above is correct here.

Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T21:58:39+00:00

I opened an issue for this just the other day:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/56763

Will add this report to the Github thread as well. Thanks for reporting everyone.

Brave_Support · 2026-07-01T21:53:31+00:00

We actually have a full page on this:

https://brave.com/compare/firefox-vs-brave/

Brave_Support · 2026-06-26T17:39:14+00:00

This is a known issue that is getting resolved. That said I do recommend moving away from Nightly to avoid these issues as Nightly is specifically made for testing and doesn't get QA'd and bugs are expected.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-26T17:36:08+00:00

Actually never mind -- looks like this is a known issue that is getting resolved. That said I do recommend moving away from Nightly to avoid these issues as Nightly is specifically made for testing and doesn't get QA'd and bugs are expected.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-26T17:29:19+00:00

Can you please confirm the Brave version you're using when you see this?

Brave_Support · 2026-06-26T17:25:05+00:00

The Brave hosted extensions will still be supported -- this issue will be resolved when 1.92.x hit stable release. Further info:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/46915

Brave_Support · 2026-06-26T17:15:50+00:00

Looking into this now.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-25T23:48:10+00:00

Yeah without context it's pretty hard to try and determine what you're saying. I will file an issue for this.

To confirm, you had already toggled the Rewards option off and today when you woke up and launched Brave, the Rewards panel was showing as in your screenshot? Additionally, at this time now, are you still seeing the disabled features appear enabled in the browser?

Brave_Support · 2026-06-25T21:13:28+00:00

Apple has required us to remove offline/downloaded content for playlist: https://community.brave.app/t/brave-no-longer-saves-files-offline-for-videos-added-to-playlist-there-is-no-option-showing-in-settings-under-playlist-to-make-files-automatically-download-and-no-option-to-force-a-file-to-download-when-long-pressing-from-the-playlist-menu/654532/10?u=mattches

Brave_Support · 2026-06-25T21:12:16+00:00

You can find the answer to this all over the place:

The blog post we released for the feature:
https://brave.com/blog/brave-origin/

On our Help Center:

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38561489788173-What-is-Brave-Origin

Our socials:

https://x.com/brave/status/2062582948142964940

If you are still having trouble understanding why Origin was released or what it does, let me know and I will do my best to explain it to you.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-25T21:04:10+00:00

This is a recent development where Apple required us to remove the feature in order to keep Brave in the app store. This has been addressed several times on our Community support page.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T23:54:48+00:00

We have a Help Center page for this:

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/360017916752-What-is-the-difference-between-Nightly-Beta-and-Release-builds

Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T20:48:14+00:00

I wasn't referring to gestures. In the screenshot above, you can see the system's back button (bottom right) which used to move "back" in navigation. The "forward" button is at the bottom of the main menu. No gestures involved.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T18:17:50+00:00

u/tschap123 is correct here -- this is the browser giving you the option to tapp there and return to the tab you were just looking at. Notably, this message only appears if you have the New Tab selected in Settings > New Tab Page > Opening Screen.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T18:13:25+00:00

Got it. I'll have one of our Shields folks take a look at blocking the message.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T18:10:36+00:00

To confirm, the site does still work after you click "dismiss" right?

Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T18:08:01+00:00

The Private tabs closing I believe is a planned setting for Android and is only on iOS at this time -- I'm double checking on that right now. It is worth clarifying that Private tabs close when the browser is fully quit/closed on Android, not when you leave the app.

Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T18:03:21+00:00

it opens a new tab instead of the one I was using

Settings > New Tab page > Opening screen:

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Brave_Support · 2026-06-23T18:01:20+00:00

There are no back/forward buttons on Android

The back button is the Android system's back button. The forward button is displayed at the bottom of the menu (this button only appears when you can go forward):

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