News of the Cyber World

[kyonides]

Serious Warning Issued For Millions Of Edge, Firefox, Chrome Users

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have warned users of Chrome, Edge and Firefox that a unified update will soon be made to all three browsers which could bring down some of the world’s biggest websites.

...Chrome. Edge and Firefox will soon move to version number ‘100’ and this will cause some of the web’s biggest sites to fail because they cannot process visits from browsers with three digit version numbers. Some of the sites currently impacted include Bethesda, T-Mobile, HBO Go and Yahoo!

...If you are running an older, unsupported browser (in Chrome, the common cut-off point is 40) then you will not be allowed to open the site for fear it may have been compromised by hackers. The problem is the outdated code in these sites only checks the first two digits. So Chrome, Edge and Firefox 100 will be read as ‘10’ and blocked.

So why are all three browsers moving to version 100 at the same time? In short: to pressure web developers to upgrade...

...The stable versions of Chrome and Edge (which both run Chromium) are 98 while Firefox is on 97.

Emergency countermeasures have been announced for Chrome and Firefox. Depending on how many websites fail upon launch (and no-one will truly know until launch), Google’s backup plan is to freeze Chrome’s version number at 99 in its ID code while Mozilla will try a combination of version number freezing and issuing hotfixes for individual sites. Microsoft has yet to comment.

Here you can take a look at all of the reported issues users might have found while testing any browser that has hit version 100 already, namely those nightly builds and developers' builds.

If you don't know what a build means, it's basically the binary executable(s) involved in your browser or WebView apps.

Remember this might affect you whether you use a PC or laptop or an Android phone. I still have to see if this will afflict iOS users as well. At least they should be part of this if they can run Chrome, Edge or Firefox on their phones.

If you think I'm exaggerating, I was testing Chromium version 100 on my phone.
Guess what? It did not let me view some online show and asked me to upgrade to the most recent build ASAP.
At first I thought it might have happened because I was using Chromium instead of Chrome till I had found that article on the browser's versioning issue.