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Widevine CDM 4.10.2209.1 update April 21, 2021, crashes every time in Firefox 78 browser

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The Widevine CDM 4.10.2209.1 plugin crashes every time in Firefox 78 browser. Was updated on April 21, 2021, maybe it's a bug? I'm not able to uninstall the plugin. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

The Widevine CDM 4.10.2209.1 plugin crashes every time in Firefox 78 browser. Was updated on April 21, 2021, maybe it's a bug? I'm not able to uninstall the plugin. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

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Solution found on this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1333571?page=1

Namely, by doing this: "Rolled back to 78.9.0esr and this solved the problem. Downloaded here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/78.9.0esr/mac/

This also requires turning off auto updates on Firefox via Preferences. The above webpage has many varieties of FF. So look for the US Eng version.

I used this page: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/78.9.0esr/mac/en-US/