Google has rolled again a latest launch of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug brought on the service to not work on Firefox for Home windows.
Yesterday, BleepingComputer obtained a number of studies that reCaptcha stopped working within the newest model of Mozilla Firefox, with the problems additionally reported on Twitter and Reddit.
BleepingComputer examined reCaptcha on our gadgets and confirmed that the service not labored in Firefox. As an alternative, the reCaptcha immediate would present an endlessly spinning circle as a substitute of performing the common captcha routine, as proven beneath.
Supply: BleepingComputer
In response to a Mozilla bug report, the problem was associated to reCaptcha’s darkish mode detection routine for Firefox in Home windows.
The script tried to switch a div’s background colour utilizing doc.physique.removeChild, however because the script was loaded within the HTML head, the DOM had not loaded but and doc.physique was not out there, inflicting the script error.
As a short lived workaround, customers may change their browser consumer agent to 1 for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, and reCaptcha would work once more.
Mozilla Firefox software program engineer Dennis Schubert confirmed the bug, stating that Google acknowledged it was a difficulty of their script relatively than the browser and was engaged on a repair.
“Yes, Google is rolling out a fix. It seems to work in several of our internal tests on multiple continents, but we’ll keep this bug open until we’re sure it’s fixed for everyone,” posted Schubert.
An hour later, Google reverted again to an earlier model of the script, fixing the bug for Firefox customers.
Whereas some had been fast to pin this as being intentional by Google, it seems to be a mistake that was rapidly resolved.
