When you visit a website, the browser’s user-agent is sent along with the request for a web page. As explained by BleepingComputer, a user-agent is a string used by a web browser that shares info about the software, including the browser name, its version number, and the technology it uses. Plus, along with Google, have reportedly been issuing warnings to web developers for months.īoth Chrome and Edge will reach browser version 100 in March, followed by Firefox in May. Until now, these strings of code only contained two digits, and it turns out that tons of websites won’t be able to read three, which may cause several bugs and problems.Īs a result, Mozilla has put a ton of effort behind the scenes to fix it. Now, web browsers of today could be facing a somewhat similar situation. The inevitable move to version 100 may result in bugs or compatibility issues on some websites not ready to read triple-digit user-agent strings.
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It was a huge mess, but global software initiatives saved the day. And while that may not sound like a big deal, that version numbers could cause a Y2K for web browsers and break all of our favorite websites, as the internet isn’t quite ready to handle those big numbers yet.įor those that don’t remember the Y2K bug, back in 1999, researchers realized that most computers based their clocks on the last two digits of a year, and on January 1st, would think that the year 2000 is 1900. Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge browsers are all old enough that they’re reaching version 100 soon.