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Well to some extent they did make it Mv3 an option, not forever but for an extra few months, with that enterprise policy flag. Enterprises used their weight to demand not a more secure browser, but an extra flag to allow them to keep running old software longer. Enterprises too are treated as a security threat by Google, who still plans to depreciate Mv2 format, forcing them to move to "more secure" extensions.