

Users on different online communities like Reddit and Twitter reported an inability to access or trade funds through the ledger as well as seeing different information from the mobile app to the browser. The update came as a surprise to many as the errors have continued through the weekend. Use the Ledger Live app to transfer the needed assets to a “hot” MetaMask account for use without a hardware wallet.Load your ledger seed phrase or account private key into MetaMask directly (compromises some security).Use another web3 wallet with Ledger support (Brave, Frame.sh).He presented users with three workarounds:

Support from the MetaMask Community Forum came through Finlay’s comments. However, every Chrome update is supposed to increase security so users are not advised to downgrade their Chrome Browser. One way is for users to prevent the Chrome update or re-install Chrome 90. The new update, albeit annoying, presented users a variety of creative fixes.

Pay attention to the MetaMask Twitter page as well as their Community Forum to catch any immediate updates regarding the situation. Dan Finlay, a Lead Developer for the ledger, confirmed that developers are working to find a fix for the Chrome issue “by the end of the week.”Īs of writing, no update has been issued by Metamask. This workaround went through Ledger Live as a proxy, however, it was disabled in their 9.5.7 update the following day. Metamask issued a brief workaround on May 27 in their 9.5.6 update.
