On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 19:47:02 +0200 Tirifto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > > I have trouble getting audio/video calls to work in IceCat. They > work in neither Riot [1] nor Jitsi Meet [2]. It seems as though WebRTC > is not functioning properly. Does IceCat come with WebRTC disabled, > and if yes, is there a way to enable it? > > I'm running Icecat 60.7.0 on Parabola GNU+Linux-libre, having > installed it via Arch User Repository [3]. (The installed binary > should be the one distributed by GNU.) In about:config, > ‘media.peerconnection.enabled’ is set to ‘true’. > > Best wishes and thanks in advance > // Tirifto > > P.S.: I'm pretty sure I was able to make calls work earlier, when > running Icecat packaged by either Guix or Parabola. Does anyone know > whether those are set up or compiled differently? > > P.P.S.: For the record, I do have custom add-ons installed, but I > couldn't get calls to work in safe mode, either, so that shouldn't be > the issue. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 1. https://about.riot.im/ > 2. https://meet.jit.si/ > 3. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat-bin/ > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
Odds are the binary is explicitly build without webrtc. The GNU/Linux mozconfig file in the icecat repos indeed has the --disable-webrtc compilation flag in there. You can check about:buildconfig to see if the flag is present. -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
