I've again disabled Object.observe (as promised by the deprecation message)
in time for the M50 branch. The V8 roll
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/3f4c95f66bca contains the
relevant V8 change, and versions of Chrome after 50.0.2656.0 no longer
expose Object.observe.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Adam Klein <ad...@chromium.org> wrote:

> An update on Object.observe deprecation: it will still be on in v8 4.9
> (Chromium M49), but with a deprecation message in the console.
>
> I still aim to un-ship it in future releases, and am working with the
> Blink API owners and other interested parties to develop that plan.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Adam Klein <ad...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> I have not looked at httparchive. Given that this feature was only
>> shipped in Chrome, I wouldn't expect it to be used by sites on the open web
>> (without a compatibility library like observe-js).
>>
>> There's still the chance that we'll run into problems with
>> Chrome-specific apps or extensions, and that's part of the reason I want to
>> start canarying ASAP.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Chris Harrelson <chris...@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Adam,
>>>
>>> Have you tried an httparchive or other search to see if this would break
>>> a lot of sites?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:33 PM Adam Klein <ad...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Until the code is gone, you can enable it in Chrome with:
>>>>
>>>> --js-flags=--harmony-object-observe
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:17 PM, <inian1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Will there be a way to locally turn-on support for Object.observe? I
>>>>> am using it for some analysis and would like to enable it on my version of
>>>>> Chrome.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:56:51 UTC+8, Adam Klein wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [bcc blink-dev]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As previously announced at
>>>>>> https://esdiscuss.org/topic/an-update-on-object-observe,
>>>>>> Object.observe has been withdrawn as an ECMAScript proposal. Also as
>>>>>> mentioned there, usage in Chrome is extremely low according to
>>>>>> chromestatus.com (0.0171% as I write this). Furthermore, most known
>>>>>> usage of Object.observe utilizes
>>>>>> https://github.com/polymer/observe-js, which includes fallback
>>>>>> support for non-Object.observe engines (which will soon be all of them).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I intend to flip the --harmony-object-observe flag to false in a
>>>>>> change later today, with the aim of v8 version 4.9 branching without
>>>>>> Object.observe support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Adam
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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