Article 5W6XN Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

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Both Firefox and Chrome are racing toward releasing version 100 in the nearfuture, and developers for both browsers are worriedthat web sites with naive code to parse the version number out of theuser-agent string will break.

Every strategy that adds complexity to the User-Agent string has astrong impact on the ecosystem. Let's work together to avoid yetanother quirky behavior. In Chrome and Firefox Nightly, you canconfigure the browser to report the version as 100 right now andreport any issues you come across.
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