On Monday, a new version of the popular extension for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain and storing its MetaMask assets was released.
The most anticipated update is the addition of support for multiple accounts of the Ledger and Trezor hardware wallets. In the past, you had to use different browser profiles to work with multiple accounts. In addition, with the introduction of this feature, users will no longer have to re-add tokens each time they use a separate hardware wallet account.
Also MetaMask will now warn users if they try to send a token to the address of its own contract. From time to time, situations arise when holders of cryptoassets send tokens in this way and lose them, and in some examples, losses are measured in tens of thousands of dollars. A warning will also appear if, when sending a transaction, the user sets an excessive gas price relative to the current network conditions. Along with this, MetaMask 9.2.0 contains a number of smaller improvements and fixes.
Recently, the number of downloads of MetaMask in Google Chrome exceeded 2 million. The developers celebrated their first million users in February 2020. The first release of MetaMask took place in 2016.
Note that in order to install a new version of MetaMask, you may need to manually update the Google Chrome extensions. If you uninstall the extension and reinstall it to upgrade, you will have to restore access to non-hardware wallets using a seed phrase.
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