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stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

Posts: 231  

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

Might I also recommend, while we're on the subject of AppImages and modern browsers, to have a look at the FreeTube privacy client for watching YouTube videos ad-free? It's very user-friendly, "modern", and uses their own servers for their API (Invidious relies on Google's servers). There are DEB files available, but you could also try their AppImage, Flatpak, and other provided packaged binaries for GNU/Linux.

Thank you for the info. Very nice app!

KnightTemplar

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Registered: 2025-06-26

Posts: 6  

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I use Brave browser here all the time on Devuan and on all my PC's and I use Opera and Brave on my smartphone, I stopped using Firefox almost 3 years ago, it was too sluggish on both of them, on my PC's and on my smartphone!

I tested Librewolf (installed directly from their website) here on devuan and it works very fine with Youtube videos and with Netflix, just be sure to enable DRM option in the settings!

Last edited by KnightTemplar (2025-07-02 02:50:10)

bones

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Registered: 2018-02-15

Posts: 7  

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

There's always KDE Falkon...they have a plugin that lets you use your own lists. took me a while to get right, and sadly I can't attach mine here, but it does work once configured. a pain to keep up with, though.

I've also made the move to primarily using Falkon. I haven't yet encountered a website in my normal travels where it doesn't work well, but I keep Firefox with uBlock Origin around, and qutebrowser as well.

Worthwhile reading:
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers.xhtml
https://unixdigest.com/articles/choose- … fully.html

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

Posts: 305  

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

@rrq, reference your steps in reply number 22 and i have done all steps except "apt-get install librewolf"

now when do a package search for "librewolf" using synaptic it shows "librewolf:arm64" and also shows "Conflicts:librewolf" in the dependency/conflicts tab of the Properties subsection

version: daedalus

posting here in case others in the present/future see the same thing.

please advise. thanks!

Last edited by stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn (2025-07-04 11:53:09)

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stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

@rrq, more referencing librewolf, also just found this:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=160616

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ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

I have no idea what the synaptics program does.

At a guess you have setup multiarch (perhaps an amd64 machine with arm64 as foreign architecture) and librewolf have published different most recent versions of their package in those architectures. To solve that "normally" you'd add an attribute like "[arch=amd64]" for the repository line, making it be like

deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main

Doing so would focus that repository line to apply for the nominated architecture only. (Use a comma separated value list to nominate more architectures)

But that's all guess work.

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

looks like it is/was at their end as per this thread:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=160616

and specifically this post:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=818332#p818332

My repo and key setup is correct. Librewolf has somehow messed up their repo setup.
I removed arm64 from the Architecures section, but apt search is still showing only the arm64 version. I decided to ignore this and checked whether I could install librewolf via synaptic - nope, the arm64 version shown by synaptic is really the wrong architecture. Then I tried apt install librewolf - which worked. With the correct amd64 version. Synaptic now shows both versions, one unnamed version installed and the arm84 version as uninstalled.
Thanks @sunrat for their help that enabled me to circumvent the upstream repo mess. I should really report this to upstream but that would require me to create another account somewhere ... if anybody else stumbles over this error they'll find the solution here.

edited to add: This worked for me. Thanks to @rrq and all!

Last edited by stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn (2025-07-04 19:30:40)

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