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Google Chrome 100 is coming next year, but there is a big problem

At the end of March 2022, the launch of the Google Chrome 100 browser should take place, and with the appearance of the third digit in the version number, problems may arise so that some sites will not open. Google is already aware of the potential challenges and is working to overcome them.

When for the site to work it is necessary to determine the version of the browser that the client is using, the resource requests a so-called User Agent – ​​a string of service text that contains basic information. For current Chrome, it looks like: “Mozilla / 5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit / 537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome / 96.0.4664.45 Safari / 537.36”. The exact browser version is provided in this snippet: “Chrome / 96.0.4664.45”, where “96” is the so-called “major” or “major” version.

Some web services, such as Duda's website builder, only read the first two digits when checking the browser version – the platform refuses to work with versions prior to Chrome 40 (from 2015), but with the release of the 100th version, the system will “see” only two digits and the entry “Chrome / 100” will be interpreted as version 10. Google has confirmed the problem with the site and suggested that the error might occur elsewhere. Some difficulties were encountered for the British platform Yell Business, but its developers made the necessary corrections without the need for any action on the part of Google.

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