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Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:40:50 +0000

@greenjeans mozilla firefox has similar redistribution restrictions as Palemoon, so I don't think that is why its not in debian repository.

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (RedGreen925) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:51:37 +0000

The ungoogled-chromium I use allows the ublock origin with its chromium web store extension. It gets updated all the time like the other chrome based browers I have installed, same with the extensions. Comes in handy I needed to go through all five other ones I have to find the one that worked on a particular website just two days ago. I still use Firefox mainly and have since it was still called Netscape Navigator before the fork to open source and as the guns nuts say, you will pry it from my cold dead hands.

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (Devarch) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:06:19 +0000

@rrq, more referencing librewolf, also just found this:
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=160616

librewolf fom Sparky Linux repo also works well. Just to inform.

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:51:23 +0000

Netflix is garbage. They want DRM to watch their videos. And these big corporations wonder why some people stream illegally.

The irony is thick.

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn) — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:00:49 +0000

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!

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:14:25 +0000

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.

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn) — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:03:19 +0000

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

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

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn) — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:04:28 +0000

@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!

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (bones) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:48:14 +0000

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

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (KnightTemplar) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:48:01 +0000

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!

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (stopAI) — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:16:01 +0000

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!

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (brocashelm) — Wed, 21 May 2025 03:35:45 +0000

@greenjeans:

Good call on the AppImages. They can be a simple and efficient way to access software rarely packaged onto your distro without the need for building or installing from third-party repositories. Besides, you could use the LibreWolf AppImage for the time being to get a feel for the browser -- try it before you actually do install it from their Debian repository. Just remember to set it as executable (or chmod +x it), or it won't launch.

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.

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Tue, 20 May 2025 22:39:51 +0000

Commodification of software takes many forms and "appimages" is one of them.
Who cares?

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:49:29 +0000

@golinux, while snaps and flatpaks are just crap, I have had some success using Appimages, they work pretty well for us "pointy-clicky" folk.

Palemoon is a good browser, but their terms of redistribution are why they aren't in anybody's repo I think.

Brave works pretty well all by itself as a daily browser, it's own adblocker seems to work good enough.

Re: Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:46:17 +0000

Install the deb. This is done with the three normal steps:

Use wget or curl
to download their https://repo.librewolf.net/keyring.gpg
to be your file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/repo.librewolf.net.gpg
Add the line deb http://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
Then run apt-get update
and apt-get install librewolf

(though that might not be pointy-ckicky enough to suit everyone)

Note: All steps are to be done as root.

The package installs a librewolf.desktop file that typically makes up an entry in the "Applications" graphical menu system, in addition to installing a librewolf binary that typically is available for execution as commandline command.