microsoft edge browser will match release

“Without a single specification to follow, different browsers have different formats for the User-Agent string, and site-specific User-Agent parsing. The web uses various ways of handling and parsing user-agent strings, and similar issues were experienced when browser versions moved from single-digit to double-digit a little over 12 years ago. The major concern with version 100 is due to the fact that the version number will be moving from two-digit to three-digit. Why Might Version 100 of Chrome, Firefox and Edge Break Websites?

To give you an example, the current user-agents for Chrome, Firefox and Edge are: It’s sent by the browser to the server through a HTTP header, and can be used for things like serving a mobile version of a site if the request is coming from a smartphone. To briefly summarise, a browser’s user-agent is a string (line of text) that helps identify which browser is being used, what version it is and what operating system is being used. Read on to find out why people are anticipating something akin to the Y2k bug all over again.

While this sounds like a cause for celebration, it could result in endless headaches for a small number of websites, due to the bugs and compatibility issues that come with a triple-digit user agent string. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge are rapidly closing in on a big milestone: version 100.

Microsoft edge browser will match release