pocket and quickforms took over my firefox

[yonnie]

Namely, my homepage is to a Quickforms advertisement and Bing is my search engine and settings shows inference to "Pocket?" I'd never choose this crap in a hundred years. Something is wrong with my Mint! My homepage used to be Linuxmint and I've never used work-spaces in almost a decade and definitely not on this install ever.
Other weird activity too.
Video will launch but for an unknown reason they will disappear, yet the sound keeps playing. Kind of like the video is not on top? Discovered that the default work-space seems to be #4 instead of #1. If I tell the properties of the video to be on #1, all I see is the background which seems to be on #4, but I'm hearing the audio.
Video display size exceeds borders of TV, didn't used to.
Do I need to re-install this?

[yonnie]

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ZBOX-CI320NANO-series:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-27-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Motherboard by ZOTAC product: ZBOX-CI320NANO series 
  v: Rev.00 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ZOTAC model: ZBOX-CI320NANO series v: Rev.00 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: B219P027 date: 07/16/2015 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 
  model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus serial: <filter> 
  charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Celeron N2930 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Silvermont rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 14666 
  Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 500/2166 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500 
  3: 571 4: 822 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  vendor: ZOTAC driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0f31 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (BYT) v: 4.2 Mesa 21.0.3 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio 
  vendor: ZOTAC driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip ID: 8086:0f04 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-27-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ZOTAC driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 
  bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:08b3 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.91 TiB used: 1.47 TiB (76.8%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS722010K9SA00 size: 93.16 GiB 
  speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: C75A scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Crucial model: CT2000BX500SSD1 
  size: 1.82 TiB serial: <filter> scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 90.70 GiB used: 33.14 GiB (36.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 204 Uptime: 1d 4h 30m Memory: 3.74 GiB used: 1.25 GiB (33.5%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.38

[Pjotr]

Test Firefox with a clean slate:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... html#ID7.1
(item 7.1)