If you are using user-agent for anything other than statistics, you are likely doing something wrong...<p>And it would be a shame if Firefox didn't implement something, even so minor like a new version number, 'just' because sites break. You are Mozilla, send them a mail and give them a week to fix it, because you are f'ing Mozilla. I'm glad this is apparently just what they did here.<p>(Same thing when NVIDIA or Microsoft do contortions to support broken games. You already fixed the function or shader; don't hotpatch it but send it to the vendor and tell them to merge it or else...)
> Firefox is may freeze the user agent to a two-digit number like "Firefox/99.0."<p>Opera did that when version went up from 9 to 10. Too many websites looked at first digit of version rather that doing feature discovery back then.<p>Useragent string of Opera 12 is "Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.18".
User agent string lost most if its meaning and is often abused.<p>Safari even froze its UA string to help against browser fingerprinting (giving less bits of information).<p>Unfortunately it is still the only way to somewhat distinguish browsers without using javascript.
Are there any legitimate reasons to care about the user agent in this day and age? If you're still serving different css/js based on a self reported identification, then chances are your motivation is questionable.<p>Not unlike certain CPU and GPU makers. Frankly, I am surprised any of this is still matters. Guess I am still just an old an naive summer child
Is it true that Microsoft skipped Windows 9 because too many applications check for "Windows 9*", and would have thought that they are running on Windows 95 or 98?
As a long-time Nightly build user as my main browser (since Phoenix 0.4 or so), I'm used to things breaking. So set my UA to this to see if anything happens:<p>> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/1930.0<p>Edit: a blast from the past - an early Nightly Build post from Peter(6) on mozillazine - <a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=102633" rel="nofollow">http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=102633</a>