On Friday, 17 October 2025 11:24:49 British Summer Time Michael wrote: > On Friday, 17 October 2025 01:41:45 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Is anyone else having sound failure in Firefox? The control panel test is > > fine. > > > > I've tried several versions: esr and not; with and without clang; > > firefox-bin; 140.3.1 and 140.4.0. Also with and without several add-ons > > including uBlock origin and ghostery. > > > > The web has many tales of woe but few cures. > > I have no problem with sound output from Firefox compiled from source. I do > not use pulseaudio, only pipewire with whatever might be its default > settings, on a Plasma desktop. These are my USE flags: > > Installed versions: 140.4.0(esr)^t(11:25:24 16/10/25)(X clang dbus > gmp- autoupdate hwaccel jumbo-build openh264 system-av1 system-harfbuzz > system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-pipewire > system-webp wayland -debug -eme-free -gnome-shell -hardened -jack -libproxy > -pgo -pulseaudio -selinux -sndio -system-png -telemetry -test -wasm-sandbox > -wifi L10N="en-GB -ach -af -an -ar -ast -az -be -bg -bn -br -bs -ca > -ca-valencia -cak -cs -cy -da -de -dsb -el -en-CA -eo -es-AR -es-CL -es-ES > -es-MX -et -eu -fa -ff -fi -fr -fur -fy -ga -gd -gl -gn -gu -he -hi -hr > -hsb -hu -hy -ia -id -is -it -ja -ka -kab -kk -km -kn -ko -lij -lt -lv -mk > -mr -ms -my -nb -ne -nl -nn -oc -pa -pl -pt-BR -pt-PT -rm -ro -ru -sc -sco > -si -sk -skr -sl -son -sq -sr -sv -szl -ta -te -th -tl -tr -trs -uk -ur -uz > -vi -xh -zh-CN -zh-TW" LLVM_SLOT="20 -19") > > Some things to check: > > 1. Do you have sound when you use a media player? If yes, we can assume > your system drivers, desktop and hardware is working as it should and the > cause of the problem is with Firefox itself.
I'll have to scratch around for some media to play. > 2. Have you checked if for some reason Kmix is muted for Firefox only? Not installed. > 3. Are all audio codecs, streams, websites failing to play, or only some? Everything I've tried in firefox. > 4. Have you changed the default Permissions in Firefox? Did you try > launching it with a new profile? Nope. > Take a look at settings under: Edit > Settings > Privacy & Security > Eh? Where is 'Edit'? > then look at the settings for 'Speaker Selection' and 'Autoplay'. By > default the 'Speaker Selection' is empty and 'Autoplay' is set to 'Block > Audio' for all websites. Thank you all for your suggestions, which I've tried with no success. -- Regards, Peter.
