Thank you Ian and Alif for responding.

I cleared the cache and turned plugins off/on. At this
point I seem to have recovered the ad-blocking function,
at least for the moment.

I'm still in the dark about getting to the uBlock plugin's
advanced setup menu.

I appreciate your comments and suggestions.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 09:51:08PM -0700, capercally.bleery670@??? wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:31:17PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
>
> > I'd like to find the advanced setup for custom filtering
> > rules, but can't seem to locate the blue power-button icon uBlock
> > origin uses to trigger the advanced setup.
>
> > uBlock Origin shows up (sans icon) with other plugins under the Tools and
> > Add-ons menu item. There is no access to advanced setup.
>
> > I've tried firefox under i3 (my default) and fvwm window
> > managers. (Neither startxfce4 nor startx
> > /usr/bin/startxfce4 would start X with Xfce. )
>
> The following may be related, or not (OP is me):
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/145qfsd/how_to_drive_ublock_on_firefox_114/
>
> I solved it by nuking the (Ubuntu) packaged firefox, and installing
> a flatpak of firefox 114.
>
> In the area of big and complex UI apps, sadly all distros are getting
> worse and worse.
>
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