Google’s Firefox and Chrome are facing major changes with the arrival of version 100 of their sites!
Mozilla company’s popular cross-platform browser has raised alarm for its users about the inability to correctly identify top websites, when Google’s Firefox and Chrome reach version 100. The browser warning, created in 2002 by David Hyatt and Joe Hewitt, is urgent because Firefox is already at version 97 and Chrome at 98, just three and two points short of the three-digit updated version.
The cross-platform browser alarm seems to be global, because the change is related to mobile phones, computers, tablets, other devices and also affects Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and macOS.
Nothing new under the sun
Mozilla detailed on its blog that “Without a single specification to follow, browsers have different formats for the user agent string and for site-specific agent parsing. Some parsing libraries may have assumptions or errors that ignore three-digit major version numbers”.
The company stressed that the sites have been part of the journey, recalling that already encountered a similar problem, when single-digit version numbers changed to double-digit ones
But as prevention is better than cure, the developers of Firefox and Chrome carry out a series of experiments and a detailed statement of the problems. In fact, already T-Mobile, Yahoo, and Daimler are included in the list of sites reporting bugs with version 100.
In any case, the warning is worth taking into account that the risk exists:
“If the pause becomes widespread and individual site interventions become unmanageable, Mozilla may temporarily freeze the major version of Firefox at 99 and then try other options.”
When faced with the unexpected, developers working on Google Chrome have an ace up their sleeve, like a backup plan to use a flag and freeze the major version at 99.
Meanwhile, some users wonder if they will be notified of the issue before the upgrade; others claim not to have used the numbers in the right way, and even a proactive user ventured to offer more wiggle room by using up to 9999.
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