Font issues with the browsers installed using Flatpak

Font issues with the Flatpak versions of browsers like Brave, Firefox, and Google Chrome are common because the sandboxed applications cannot access system fonts. Using Flatseal to grant filesystem permissions usually resolves this.

Install the Flatseal app

Either use the software centre to install the app. Otherwise, apply the following command to install the Flatseal app,

flatpak install flathub com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

Run the app using the following command,

flatpak run com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

Select the browser, e.g. Chrome Flatpak. Scroll down to Filesystem. Under Other files, add the following paths:

xdg-config/fontconfig

~/.local/share/fonts

Restart the browser.

Turn off Chrome browser home page with Ads in Linux Lite OS

Linux Lite is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. A beautifully customised XFCE desktop is the main attraction. Google Chrome is the default browser with Linux Lite. The default homepage displays intrusive ads. It can be turned off by following these steps.

Google Chrome > Settings > On startup 

Remove the URL from the Open a specific page or set of pages.

Install Brave browser on Ubuntu and Debian

Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser. Brave is a privacy-focused browser and automatically blocking online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. The extensions of the Chrome browser also works with Brave. Bookmarks and extensions from Chrome import after the installation of Brave browser. Brave browser has its own search engine for web search.

Following are the commands to install, apply the commands one by one.

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser