1894735 - reCAPTCHA is broken for [some|most|all] Windows users

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2024-05-04 06:30:05

Broken at all reCaptcha sites, including these: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en https://phishing.eset.com/en-us/report

UA spoofing general.useragent.override = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" seems workaround.

When will a new release fix be released for this serious bug??? Firefox will not work on ANY site that has a reCAPTCHA. Is that not an critical emergency?

When will a new release fix be released for this serious bug??? Firefox will not work on ANY site that has a reCAPTCHA. Is that not an critical emergency?

As you may know from following the threads and conducting your own testing, this problem is specific to the way Firefox/Windows identifies itself to websites:

The reCAPTCHA script runs correctly if you have Firefox transmit these other "user agent" strings (either by creating a preference or by using an add-on):

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