Version 100 of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge May Break Websites

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It won’t be long until Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft’s web browsers celebrate a major milestone by reaching their hundredth versions, but the festivities could be tainted by a curious issue whereby websites can no longer identify them correctly, resulting in broken features and other unwanted issues.



As explained in a post on Mozilla Hacks by Karl Dubost (Mozilla engineering manager), Chris Peterson (Firefox for Android dev), and Ali Beyad (Google engineer), the problem lies with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge’s version numbers going from double to triple digits, resulting in more complex user-agent strings that select websites apparently can’t cope with. The list of websites with identified issues isn’t very long yet, but it does include some notable destinations that include Yahoo and...

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[Grimlakin]

Seems to me a problem with the websites and their tracking cookies and not so much with the browser versions.

 

[MadMummy76]

I thought html was an universal language and it should look and work exactly the same on all browsers.

 

[Brian_B]

Y2K is reborn

 

[Dogsofjune]