My setup for YouTube on the deck was adding my browser as a non-steam game and letting it open youtube.com/tv in kiosk mode. Worked great for a long time. Today it started giving me a message like “check your device’s app store for the official app” and redirected me to default YouTube.

Anyone else got this problem? Any solutions?

  • Batadon@lemm.eeOP
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    17 hours ago

    I found the problem, apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified, including “YouTube for TV”. Can’t even install new plugins right now and sometimes having Firefox open just randomly crashes my steamdeck.

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      16 hours ago

      apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified

      This sounds like the root certificate expiry that just happened. You need to update Firefox to get the updated root certificate.

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        15 hours ago

        Yes that fixed it, thank you. Feeling a bit stupid for not having the idea to check for updates myself…

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        12 hours ago

        I just realized YouTube TV is not the same thing as the YouTube app on Android TV…

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        17 hours ago

        Got “It looks like you’re outside of the United States. YouTube TV is only available in the US.” after logging in. Didn’t know the US had their own version :D

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      2 hours ago

      FYI it is a good time to move away from firefox given recent events at mozilla.

      I have been liking Librewolf which is on the discover app downloader in desktop mode.

      edit: Why are people downvoting me?