Security News > 2024 > May > Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues
Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows.
Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports that reCaptcha stopped working in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, with the issues also reported on Twitter and Reddit.
BleepingComputer tested reCaptcha on our devices and confirmed that the service no longer worked in Firefox.
As a temporary workaround, users could change their browser user agent to one for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, and reCaptcha would work again.
Mozilla Firefox software engineer Dennis Schubert confirmed the bug, stating that Google acknowledged it was an issue in their script rather than the browser and was working on a fix.
An hour later, Google reverted back to an earlier version of the script, fixing the bug for Firefox users.
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