> Y2K BUG, TAKE 2
Some websites could break when Chrome and Firefox reach version 100 in a couple of months’ time, Mozilla warns in a blog post. According to the post, this is because some sites rely on a string called User–Agent (UA) to identify your browser version and configure the site to suit. However, “without a single specification to follow, different browsers have different formats for the UA string, and site–specific UA parsing. It’s possible that some parsing libraries may have hard– coded assumptions or bugs that don’t take into account three–digit major version numbers.” Sound unlikely? The post reports that testing has found major sites returning problems including T–Mobile, Yahoo, and Daimler, although some are already being fixed.