Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

Just as an aside, how about switching to Seamonkey?  Back when Firefox brought 
out release 29, I didn't like what they did to the user interface, and made 
the switch.  Seamonkey is another fork of the original Netscape code which 
preserves a lot of the original look and feel, as well as (for me) 
reliability.


https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/


  presently, I use icewweasel (ffx52) when I need sound, and ffx59 otherwise.
  That works perfectly.
  An other possibility with ffx59 is to download the file you want to play,
  and play it locally.
  By curiosity, I installed seamomkey from the tar ball, but I found
  it less powerful than firefox. For example. in firefox, you can easily
  manage the side bar corresponding to places.sqlite (CTRl-b),i.e. add
  or remove links, and this is much more easier than editing a bookmarks.html.
  Also, you can choose the different font sizes (text, toolbar,...) with
  the file userChrome.css.
  I didn't find the equivalent in seamonkey.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[David Wright]

On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 13:37:36 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:24:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:13:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I seriously doubt they would accept a patch to restore the ALSA
> > features that they intentionally removed with the goal of not having
> > to support multiple audio output backends.
> 
> The discussion sounded as if they just hadn't the bandwidth to cope
> with another backend: so a credible offer seems still out...
> 
> > I don't use Pulse Audio either, and have no intention of doing so in
> > the near future.  If Firefox doesn't support ALSA, then I will not be
> > listening to audio in Firefox.
> 
> As I do...
> 
> > I still have Google-Chrome installed,
> > and I use that for the rare occasion when I want to watch/listen to a
> > YouTube submission.
> 
> Eeek :-)
> 
> For me, it's youtube-dl and cclive. I'm fine with my browser not
> being able to make noise. On the contrary, the less the browser
> is capable of, the better...
> 
> Including not mining cryptocurrency for other people :-)

Yes, I prefer to download any videos I actually want to play.
I would also prefer not to have them play silently either.
The recent thread "WTF does Firefox 58?" touched on this
but wasn't very specific, with a reference to
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections
(lots of different features in here), but the referrer said they
hadn't tried these methods anyway. Any ideas?

(I'm assuming what plays is not flash, as I *think* I have
no flash available to this particular system's browser.)

Cheers,
David.

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Charlie Gibbs]

On 15/03/18 02:12 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:


On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:


On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:00:58 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:


Wouldn't it render your system root-vulnerable to some malignant
active content (JS)?


   of course, but I try to avoid URLs I don't know.


A URL you do know might possibly be owned (hacked into).


the only one I really use is youtube, but anyway, I found a much
better solution:
- when I need sound, I use iceweasel (ffx version 52), and current
ffx version (now 59) otherwise.
Can anybody answer these 2 questions:
 - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal
user,
   even with pulseaudio?
 - why these damned firefox guys so obviously ignore the user's needs,
   and removed a feature wich worked from the origin to v52?


Just as an aside, how about switching to Seamonkey?  Back when Firefox 
brought out release 29, I didn't like what they did to the user 
interface, and made the switch.  Seamonkey is another fork of the 
original Netscape code which preserves a lot of the original look and 
feel, as well as (for me) reliability.


https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

Re: No sound in Firefox

[tomas]

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:24:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:13:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> I seriously doubt they would accept a patch to restore the ALSA
> features that they intentionally removed with the goal of not having
> to support multiple audio output backends.

The discussion sounded as if they just hadn't the bandwidth to cope
with another backend: so a credible offer seems still out...

> I don't use Pulse Audio either, and have no intention of doing so in
> the near future.  If Firefox doesn't support ALSA, then I will not be
> listening to audio in Firefox.

As I do...

> I still have Google-Chrome installed,
> and I use that for the rare occasion when I want to watch/listen to a
> YouTube submission.

Eeek :-)

For me, it's youtube-dl and cclive. I'm fine with my browser not
being able to make noise. On the contrary, the less the browser
is capable of, the better...

Including not mining cryptocurrency for other people :-)

Cheers
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Re: No sound in Firefox

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:13:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Most things work out of the box. OK, newer Firefoxes are ripping
> out Alsa support... I don't really care: I consider the browser
> a necessary evil anyway, so some amount of dysfunctionality is
> a Good Thing. If you want Alsa support in the browser, I think
> Mozilla is taking patches.

I seriously doubt they would accept a patch to restore the ALSA
features that they intentionally removed with the goal of not having
to support multiple audio output backends.

I don't use Pulse Audio either, and have no intention of doing so in
the near future.  If Firefox doesn't support ALSA, then I will not be
listening to audio in Firefox.  I still have Google-Chrome installed,
and I use that for the rare occasion when I want to watch/listen to a
YouTube submission.

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Brian]

On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 09:29:54 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > >   This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account,
> > >   the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago)
> > >   So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox"
> > 
> > Can you check if "normal user" is part of audio group ?
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
>  yes, it is.

Being in the audio group is unnecessary and actually redundant. You
could check the ACLs on /dev/snd/*.

brian@desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/snd/*
crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/controlC0
crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Feb 28 13:11 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Mar 14 17:55 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1c
crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p
crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116,  1 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Dec 17 22:29 /dev/snd/timer

/dev/snd/by-path:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 17 22:29 pci-:00:11.5 -> ../controlC0

brian@desktop:~$ getfacl /dev/snd/controlC0
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/snd/controlC0
# owner: root
# group: audio
user::rw-
user:brian:rw-
group::rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

-- 
Brian.

Re: No sound in Firefox

[tomas]

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:27:49AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hi,

[...]

> PluseAudio is the last crap on earth and I do not even know,
> WHY everything depends on it (and can not be changed)

Hm. Not everybody likes PulseAudio (I don't). Still... can't we
get along? Their authors are making free software, so *thank you*.

> It is not even possibel to get rid of it,
> otherwise the WHOLE audiosystem will not more work!

This is not true. Debian Stretch here. No PulseAudio, just Alsa.
Most things work out of the box. OK, newer Firefoxes are ripping
out Alsa support... I don't really care: I consider the browser
a necessary evil anyway, so some amount of dysfunctionality is
a Good Thing. If you want Alsa support in the browser, I think
Mozilla is taking patches.

Cheers
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Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote:


On Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:12:22 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

 - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal user,
even with pulseaudio?


ff59 audio works fine on my system.

Can you check if ff59 is seen by pavucontrol (in Playback tab) when playing
audio ?


   When I run any sound player, it is shown in the pavucontrol playback tab,
   but not I try to play any sound from firefox (youtube for example)
   I tha rcase, I only have  "system sound", and no application.
   how can I add ffx?

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Michelle Konzack wrote:


This can not be true, because I use Debian Stretch,
have FF58 installed and it works perfectly
except that I hate pulseaudio, because it need 5 minutes to start!
(Login up to WindowManager usage)

PluseAudio is the last crap on earth and I do not even know,
WHY everything depends on it (and can not be changed)

It is not even possibel to get rid of it,
otherwise the WHOLE audiosystem will not more work!


  hi Michelle,
  we are both on Debian Stretch, but anyway have not the same behaviour:
  for me, pulseaudio takes 3 seconds to start, but I have no sound.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Brad Rogers wrote:


I have found that, sometimes, even when starting in safe mode, with an
extant settings directory some things remain messed up.  The easiest way
to overcome was move settings out of the way and start again.

See what happens by renaming your FF settings directory so a new profile
is created when you start up.


  hi Brad,
  thank you for this suggestion, but I already did that many times.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Michelle Konzack]

Hi,

Am 2018-03-15 hackte Pierre Frenkiel in die Tasten:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>
>> I think that I'll keep my copy of Firefox v51.0.1 around for a
>> while, until I
>> am sure that I don't need to revert to it.
>
>   I reopen this thread, as there are news issues with versions 58 and
> 59:
>   with V58 + pulseaudio: no sound, no message

This can not be true, because I use Debian Stretch,
have FF58 installed and it works perfectly
except that I hate pulseaudio, because it need 5 minutes to start!
(Login up to WindowManager usage)

PluseAudio is the last crap on earth and I do not even know,
WHY everything depends on it (and can not be changed)

It is not even possibel to get rid of it,
otherwise the WHOLE audiosystem will not more work!


-- 
Michelle KonzackMiila ITSystems @ TDnet
GNU/Linux Developer 00372-54541400

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Brad Rogers]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:12:22 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

Hello Pierre,

> - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal
> user, even with pulseaudio?

I have found that, sometimes, even when starting in safe mode, with an
extant settings directory some things remain messed up.  The easiest way
to overcome was move settings out of the way and start again.

See what happens by renaming your FF settings directory so a new profile
is created when you start up.

-- 
 Regards  _
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/ _)radnever immediately apparent"
Loaded like a freight train flyin' like an aeroplane
Nightrain - Guns 'N' Roses


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Re: No sound in Firefox

[Dominique Dumont]

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:12:22 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>  - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal user,
> even with pulseaudio?

ff59 audio works fine on my system.

Can you check if ff59 is seen by pavucontrol (in Playback tab) when playing 
audio ?

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:


On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:00:58 +0100 (CET)
Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:


Wouldn't it render your system root-vulnerable to some malignant
active content (JS)?


   of course, but I try to avoid URLs I don't know.


A URL you do know might possibly be owned (hacked into).


   the only one I really use is youtube, but anyway, I found a much
   better solution:
   - when I need sound, I use iceweasel (ffx version 52), and current
   ffx version (now 59) otherwise.
   Can anybody answer these 2 questions:
- why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal user,
  even with pulseaudio?
- why these damned firefox guys so obviously ignore the user's needs,
  and removed a feature wich worked from the origin to v52?

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote:


On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

  This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account,
  the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago)
  So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox"


Can you check if "normal user" is part of audio group ?

HTH



 yes, it is.

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Dominique Dumont]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>   This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account,
>   the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago)
>   So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox"

Can you check if "normal user" is part of audio group ?

HTH

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:


Wouldn't it render your system root-vulnerable to some malignant active
content (JS)?


  of course, but I try to avoid URLs I don't know.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Marc Shapiro wrote:

I think that I'll keep my copy of Firefox v51.0.1 around for a while, until I 
am sure that I don't need to revert to it.


 I reopen this thread, as there are news issues with versions 58 and 59:
 with V58 + pulseaudio: no sound, no message
 with V59 + pulseaudio: no sound, ffx asks to install pulseaudio!
 This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account,
 the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago)
 So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox"

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, deloptes wrote:


check what is set as default in your not working profile in pavucontrol.
I found that when the audio device is set as default it works. perhaps FF
has same problem. This is the green checked mark on the right in output.


  Alas, the audio device is the good one in pavucontrol, and
  actually, the files pavucontrol.ini are identical


other option is you lack permissions - if FF is only app with this issue
unlikely.


   yes, ffx is the only app with this issue

  I think that until a fix is found, I'll run ffx as root.

  thank you for your help.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[deloptes]

Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> I tried again with the new ffx version (57.0.3) and I still have no
> sound, even after running pavucontrol.
> But I discovered that when running  firefox and pulseaudio
> as root, the sound works perfectly.
> Can anybody explain that?

check what is set as default in your not working profile in pavucontrol.
I found that when the audio device is set as default it works. perhaps FF
has same problem. This is the green checked mark on the right in output.

other option is you lack permissions - if FF is only app with this issue
unlikely.

regards

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, Curt wrote:


On 2017-08-05, cu...@free.fr wrote
Did you try configuring the output device with pavucontrol (especially
if you have more than one sound card / HDMI)?



  I tried again with the new ffx version (57.0.3) and I still have no
  sound, even after running pavucontrol.
  But I discovered that when running  firefox and pulseaudio
  as root, the sound works perfectly.
  Can anybody explain that?

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, Curt wrote:


On 2017-08-05, cu...@free.fr wrote
Did you try configuring the output device with pavucontrol (especially
if you have more than one sound card / HDMI)?



   hi Curt,
   I'm coming back with still the same problem:
   pulseaudio is running, but Firefox (now version 57.0.2) still
   asks for pulseaudio. As before, sound works in all other browsers.
   pavucontrol didn't solve this issue.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Curt]

On 2017-08-05, Pierre Frenkiel  wrote:
>>
>I have exactly the same problem, but for me installing the listed packages
>didn't solve it. I must then continue with v51.
>the sound works everywhere, but in firefox versions > v51.
>Any idea ?
>I can't understand why firefox is the only browser with this issue.

Did you try configuring the output device with pavucontrol (especially
if you have more than one sound card / HDMI)?

> best regards,


-- 
“Certitude is not the test of certainty.”
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Marc Shapiro wrote:


On 03/20/2017 03:16 PM, songbird wrote:

Marc Shapiro wrote:

I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in
Firefox.  Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had
previously uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember.  I
tried installing PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox.  Also, no
sound anywhere else.  I uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back
(except for Firefox).  I reverted Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound
everywhere.

I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but
I can't get it to work.  Can anyone help me get sound working with
PulseAudio?

   make sure you have everything installed that you need.


   i had to go find a missing chunk and add it when
this happened to me:

(you may not need the development stuff, but ...)


$ dpkg -l | grep pulse

ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386 1.10.4-1 
i386 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libpulse-dev:i38610.0-1 
i386 PulseAudio client development headers and libraries
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 10.0-1 
i386 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:i386   10.0-1 
i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:i386 10.0-1 
i386 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  pulseaudio   10.0-1 
i386 PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils 10.0-1 
i386 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server



=

   hth,


   songbird

It's working, now.  Not sure what the problem was, but after purging and 
reinstalling PulseAudio I now have sound that works in the latest Firefox.  I 
still think that it would be better if this hard requirement did not exist, 
but at least it is working now.  I just hope that whatever the problem was 
(years back) that caused me to purge PulseAudio in the first place has been 
fixed and does not come back to bite me.


I think that I'll keep my copy of Firefox v51.0.1 around for a while, until I 
am sure that I don't need to revert to it.


Marc


  I have exactly the same problem, but for me installing the listed packages
  didn't solve it. I must then continue with v51.
  the sound works everywhere, but in firefox versions > v51.
  Any idea ?
  I can't understand why firefox is the only browser with this issue.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Marc Shapiro]

On 03/20/2017 03:16 PM, songbird wrote:

Marc Shapiro wrote:

I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in
Firefox.  Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had
previously uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember.  I
tried installing PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox.  Also, no
sound anywhere else.  I uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back
(except for Firefox).  I reverted Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound
everywhere.

I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but
I can't get it to work.  Can anyone help me get sound working with
PulseAudio?

   make sure you have everything installed that you need.


   i had to go find a missing chunk and add it when
this happened to me:

(you may not need the development stuff, but ...)


$ dpkg -l | grep pulse

ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386 1.10.4-1   
 i386 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libpulse-dev:i38610.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio client development headers 
and libraries
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio client libraries (glib 
support)
ii  libpulse0:i386   10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:i386 10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  pulseaudio   10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils 10.0-1 
 i386 Command line tools for the PulseAudio 
sound server


=

   hth,


   songbird

It's working, now.  Not sure what the problem was, but after purging and 
reinstalling PulseAudio I now have sound that works in the latest 
Firefox.  I still think that it would be better if this hard requirement 
did not exist, but at least it is working now.  I just hope that 
whatever the problem was (years back) that caused me to purge PulseAudio 
in the first place has been fixed and does not come back to bite me.


I think that I'll keep my copy of Firefox v51.0.1 around for a while, 
until I am sure that I don't need to revert to it.


Marc

Re: No sound in Firefox

[songbird]

Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in 
> Firefox.  Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had 
> previously uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember.  I 
> tried installing PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox.  Also, no 
> sound anywhere else.  I uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back 
> (except for Firefox).  I reverted Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound 
> everywhere.
>
> I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but 
> I can't get it to work.  Can anyone help me get sound working with 
> PulseAudio?

  make sure you have everything installed that you need.


  i had to go find a missing chunk and add it when
this happened to me:

(you may not need the development stuff, but ...)


$ dpkg -l | grep pulse

ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386 1.10.4-1   
 i386 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libpulse-dev:i38610.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio client development headers 
and libraries
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio client libraries (glib 
support)
ii  libpulse0:i386   10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:i386 10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  pulseaudio   10.0-1 
 i386 PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils 10.0-1 
 i386 Command line tools for the PulseAudio 
sound server


=

  hth,


  songbird

Re: No sound in Firefox

[Nicolas George]

Le decadi 30 ventôse, an CCXXV, Marc Shapiro a écrit :
> I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in
> Firefox.  Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had previously
> uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember.  I tried installing
> PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox.  Also, no sound anywhere else.

That sounds (pun intended) like PulseAudio all right.

>   I
> uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back (except for Firefox).  I reverted
> Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound everywhere.
> 
> I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but I
> can't get it to work.  Can anyone help me get sound working with PulseAudio?

Maybe you will be interested by this recent thread:

https://sourceforge.net/p/alsa/mailman/message/35734571/

And also this:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857050

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George


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Re: No sound in Firefox

[Václav Ovsík]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 01:53:04PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in
> Firefox.  Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had previously
> uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember.  I tried installing
> PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox.  Also, no sound anywhere else.  I
> uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back (except for Firefox).  I reverted
> Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound everywhere.
> 
> I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but I
> can't get it to work.  Can anyone help me get sound working with PulseAudio?

and what about
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857050#59
I don't have this on my debian mirror yet...
-- 
Zito

No sound in Firefox

[Marc Shapiro]

I recently upgraded my Firefox to v52 and immediately lost all sound in 
Firefox.  Apparently Firefox now requires PulseAudio, which I had 
previously uninstalled due to issues which I no longer remember.  I 
tried installing PulseAudio, but still no sound in Firefox.  Also, no 
sound anywhere else.  I uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back 
(except for Firefox).  I reverted Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound 
everywhere.


I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but 
I can't get it to work.  Can anyone help me get sound working with 
PulseAudio?



Marc