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Today May 1, I noticed that any website that shows a recaptcha checkbox, including the google recaptcha demo (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo) only shows an infinite spinner in firefox v125.0.3. I've tried the same sites in chrome and edge and the recaptcha works fine. In FF, I have cleared my cache, disabled tracking protection, disabled anti-virus and tried troubleshooting mode - still get the infinite spinner. Last week, I had no problems with recaptcha.

Today May 1, I noticed that any website that shows a recaptcha checkbox, including the google recaptcha demo (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo) only shows an infinite spinner in firefox v125.0.3. I've tried the same sites in chrome and edge and the recaptcha works fine. In FF, I have cleared my cache, disabled tracking protection, disabled anti-virus and tried troubleshooting mode - still get the infinite spinner. Last week, I had no problems with recaptcha.

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Google's reCAPTCHA technology appears to be having technical difficulties in some regions currently. Try changing the user agent with User-Agent Switcher to make the browser look like Chrome.

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I am having the same issue. I added this user agent https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/?utm_source=gitlab and switched to chrome. That took care of the issue. Mozilla needs to clean uo the mess they have made.

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This is more likely caused by changes made by Google as it works for me with a Firefox Mac user agent and with a Firefox Linux user agent, only Windows is affected.

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Mozilla has contacted Google about this problem. Google typically updates the reCAPTCHA script about once every week or two (the last update for the English version was overnight Sunday-Monday), so I don't know how soon it will get fixed.

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Thank you everyone for the replies. Glad to know I'm not going entirely crazy. Guess I'll just wait for the update and use chrome if/when needed.

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Chip Amati said

Mozilla needs to clean uo the mess they have made.

Google needs to fix this. This appears to only affect Firefox users with a Windows user agent but not those with a macOS and Linux Firefox useragent.

Firefox 125.0.3 was released on April 29 while this recaptcha issue only occurred in the last day.

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I believe Google want to force some another user to give up on FF, so a lot ones will just start use chrome because of that, in that middle time Google fix that..., I believe its enough to be in a court!

Anyway, to solve that just do it:

open FF, type: about:config type general.useragent.override and create a new one with this code: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.6422.14 Safari/537.36

after that be fixed by Google, just delete that record: general.useragent.override

DONT install that addons, because all of that ask for your DATA, and that will be a problem if you have sensitive professional data.

Regards

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Thanks Arquivos...great answer but I believe the issue has been fixed by google. I added your override and recaptcha worked. Then deleted the override and recaptcha is still working.

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bill340 said

Thanks Arquivos...great answer but I believe the issue has been fixed by google.

It definitely looks that way based on two of the pages I was using for testing.

For what I can see, Google has rolled back the script to the URL they were using last week and this allows the picture popup to appear. If anyone finds a page that still has a problem, you can force a full reload to fetch the latest script files. Here's how:

  • Shift+click the reload button
  • Ctrl+Shift+R (on Mac, Command+Shift+R)

Please do this before you enter data into the form, because this will flush forms.