Chrome, Firefox, and Edge will soon hit version 100 - User-Agent parsers expected to break

[Jan]

Chrome, Firefox, and Edge version 100 problem — expect sites to break

Three commonly-used internet browsers are nearing their 100th versions, and Engadget reported that the triple-digit release numbers in the browsers' User-Agents (UA) could cause problems with several websites.

The browsers in question — Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge — could cause some websites to break when they roll over from a two-digit to three-digit version number.

 

[ScrooV]

Time to start a consultancy service, checking and fixing compatibility of 1.2 billion websites. Plenty of work to go around. Lets start with Gov websites.

 

[gregmcc]

Lets start with Gov websites.

No need, none of them work anyway.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Time to start a consultancy service, checking and fixing compatibility of 1.2 billion websites. Plenty of work to go around. Lets start with Gov websites.

Me, me, me as well. I can see a Y2K cashcow all over again.

 

[Thor]

Easy fix

Launch version 1 ( Iphone X vibes )

 

[garyc]

Time to start a consultancy service, checking and fixing compatibility of 1.2 billion websites. Plenty of work to go around. Lets start with Gov websites.

They will welcome the alibi for why things are not working. They will probably ride that pony for the next year.

 

[bixt]

Clickbait Heading: Sites will break

Content: Oh but they have a fix, will stick to v99.

Pointless article, hardly news at all

 

[Swa]

Good grief, Y2K again. Htf has the world survived till now. So everyone just assumed a fixed standard for something that doesn't have a standard? Right...