Version 100 of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge could cause websites to break.
For those old enough to remember, the year 2000 was a scary time for computers. Since many computers represented the year with two digits (ie 1999 was 99), many feared that computers would revert to the year 1900 and cause massive problems. That didn’t happen, but now Mozilla is warning of a similar issue with the web. At some point over the next several months, the world’s leading web browsers—Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge—will all hit version 100, which “could break some websites that rely on identifying the browser version. As Mozilla explains: Major version 100 is a big milestone for both Chrome and Firefox. It also has the potential to cause breakage on websites as we move from a two-digit to a three-digit version number. Web developers use all kinds of techniques for parsing these strings, from custom code to using User-Agent parsing libraries, which can then be used to determine the corresponding processing logic.
