Article: Firefox providing .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu users.

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 17:58:57 UTC 2024


I installed FF and turned on Sync - it did the rest.
I have a lot of work to do today so I removed the deb and
enabled the snap - Im back to working now. 

I ABP, uBlockOrigin, StartPage privacy protection and js killer installed.


On Saturday 27 January 2024 11:52:29 AM (-06:00), Ralf Mardorf via 
ubuntu-users wrote:

 > On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 14:15 +0000, Wade Smart wrote:
 > > YT videos now are all blocked
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I seriously doubt that this is correct, since Firefox from upstream
 > still plays YT videos when build from source for e.g. Arch Linux
 > packages or when installed via the iStore.
 > 
 > Have you installed an outdated add blocker?
 > 
 > On iPadOS there seems to be no way to block YT video adds at all, when
 > using Firefox, while on Arch Linux uBlockOrigin seems to do the job.
 > 
 > However, on Linux I tend towards "Waterfox" with uBlockOrigin and on
 > iPadOS towards "Perfect Web", to watch YT videos without adds.
 > 
 > On Linux, when using Firefox or Waterfox, the Add-on "Hide My IP"
 > sometimes is required to show some YT videos. Some YT videos are not
 > available in Germany (and/or other countries), but "Hide My IP" does the
 > job.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Ralf
 > 

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