Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: tomas To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: No sound in Firefox Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <f85768cf286e159ec61f221e3274c9f5.squir...@webmail.tamay-dogan.net> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:27:49AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
(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,

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

2018-03-15 Thread 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,

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-14 Thread 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

2018-03-14 Thread 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 +

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-12-29 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-12-28 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-12-28 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-12-19 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-08-05 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-08-05 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-03-20 Thread 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

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-03-20 Thread 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 soun

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-03-20 Thread 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 >

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-03-20 Thread 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 i

No sound in Firefox

2017-03-20 Thread 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