Matisyahu's Blog

I left work on the train and I was hoping that by the time I got home there would be enough time to squeeze in a walk before finishing for the night but by the time I had gotten things sorted out from the day it started raining. It started raining, then it stopped then it started raining again – nope, not going to take a chance because the last time I went walking I got stuck in a downpour. At the moment of typing out this message it is still raining and according to the Metservice there are forecasts that it’ll continue raining tomorrow and the next few days so I may well get a good night sleep and maybe pick up a walk after work in the evening assuming that the weather is fine.

I was having a read through the Chrome Platform Status page (link) and it looks like for the next couple of releases there are some big changes however it is interesting that version 148 has a limited number of features listed. The release date for Chrome 148 will be during May which is when Google I/O 2026 will be hosted which may indicate features being added that they want to home back from making public. There is the long term project of replacing ChromeOS with Android and with that comes the need to add extension support to Chrome given that there are many businesses that make use of ChromeOS desktops and laptops that also depend on extensions such as 1Password.

When it comes to how things are progressing when it comes to the Web Extensions standard that are being developed, the best place to check out the latest progress is on the ‘WECG Meetings 2026, Public Notes’ document. It is interesting to see the discussions taking place in terms of harmonising the implementation of the various parts of the standard. I think the long term goal is to eventually get to a point where you a write your application, test it and deploy it with minimal browser specific tweaks.