El 22/10/25 a las 21:28, Eli Schwartz escribió:
On 10/22/25 1:46 PM, Javier Martinez wrote:El 17/10/25 a las 2:41, Peter Humphrey escribió: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.Since pulseaudio appeared, sound in firefox become just a nightmare. Each time I upgrade the package compiling from sources, I don't know what will be broken after that. Sinceresly, pulseaudio should be dropped from gentoo... dropped far far far far far far away, and if you could, even far since it's the source of a lot of headaches.I have good news for you: there is a USE flag (for firefox, even!) and you are welcome to disable it. This is much more than you can do on other distros. Kindly extend others the same courtesy of being able to enable it. Gentoo itself doesn't take sides. Calling for its global removal from Gentoo is: - offensive - a waste of breath, nobody with power is listening to you - pointless, since it does not help you in any way
And some good news for you: Someone had to maintain pipewire to allow non pulseaudio users to have sound in firefox thanks to some developers that impose dependencies in one audio system discarding others. And in that question systemd and pulseaudio are very responsible by it's way of doing things.
Without all damage done by systemd developers maybe it would be just need to compile firefox to use standard sound system without requiring "a sound daemon".
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