A while ago Google announced its change to a new extension framework with quite a few big changes (we are not happy about many of them and think they are predatory to protect their business model).

This change has a lot of technical and user experience ramifications, but we had to do it. From June '24 on it is mandatory.

Chrome Store has now started putting pressure on extension developers by slowing down review times for MV2 extensions, and we now wait 2-3 days for a new version to be released, instead of a few hours.

We're launching this now to mitigate this, and to give us some time to weed out any bugs that appear before we can't update the extension anymore without MV3.

This update basically touches everything in Memex. If you run into any bugs we have not caught yet, please let us know via the live chat or here on Featurebase.

General things this impacts:

• Sync: Sync is not as live anymore and sometimes maybe is even delayed.
  Please let us know for cases you encounter so we can figure out how to improve this.

  • When you start a new profile that runs memex the first sync change will have a notification appear, one of the side effects of the MV3 change. We're seeking to improve that but have not figured out how yet.

• UX: When not using Memex for 30s, the first annotation has some added startup time. In the next few weeks we're going to work on this and hopefully get back to the snappiness you all know.