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Is ffmpeg installed? It's installed on my system by default.

One way to check is: Be sure to re-launch Firefox if you do install it.

The solution is simple. I don't know which MX Linux version you're using but I just tested it on MX-23.5 Xfce and it works fine. This is how:
Go to /etc/default/keyboard
In the keyboard file, on the line that begins with "XKBOPTIONS" (Line 8), add ctrl:swap_lalt_lctl to it, keeping it in the ...

After reading the original post I thought it would be easier and simpler to just copy a "clean" Firefox profile that is kept with your data files somewhere. Then copy that "clean" profile in place of the Firefox "used" profile that increases in size.

I present two ways to do this, using the ...

Yes and no.

According to arkenfox (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/3.4-Apply-&-Update-&-Maintain under the "APPLY" section), if a new profile is being used then the arkenfox-cleanup.js cleanup script is not needed. That script appears in their github section here https://github.com ...

How did it get out of date? I upgraded it in the main repos a week or two ago. Browsers should always be updated ASAP.


Because all the browsers I tested were on my primary (daily-used) MX-19.4 Xfce. Waterfox and Pale Moon were the only two browsers of the four that I have installed that were ...

No problem with Firefox, Pale Moon or google-chrome with this recent CAPTCHA that started on 25 April 2025, but Waterfox will hang on the CAPTCHA window and never get to the square for a green checkmark.

This did not happen with the last CAPTCHA on MX Linux months ago...

Edit: Pale Moon was out of ...

I never used arkenfox and I though I would first test upgrading it before posting my response.

Instead of just providing a short one or two-sentence answer I though a more detailed answer would be more helpful for you and/or interested readers, so here goes.



To test, I downloaded an older ...

That's good information. I did at some point in years past, click on the flatpak tab "just to see", and I remember installing a flatpak out of curosity which was then immediately removed. Would that have anything to do with a 400+ MiB flatpak presence in /root ?

However the question remains; why ...

This is just an after-thought curiosity. Did you check for any flatpak files in /root/ ? Like I said in my Post #2, I found over 400 MiB of flatpak junk in MX-19 /root and that was without ever having accessed or installed any flatpak packages.

One way to check is with the command in the below code ...

As can be seen in the second bullet-point in Step 2 of my Post #2 above, I had removed (autoremoved) the "libostree-1-1" package (it was an orphan package left over after the flatpak package was removed). Remember this is MX-19 and also, if memory serves, MX-21.

In your case, for some reason the ...