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PostPosted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 5:10 pm    Post subject: No sound in firefox without pulseaudio Reply with quote

Hi, after I upgraded the system last time, I had no sound. I initially thought it was a problem with my video cards, or some alsa problems. But after trying some applications, I discovered I wasn't getting sound only in firefox. So I Installed pulseaudio (I received a warning on firefox when I went to youtube to install pulseaudio or else no sound, but that only after 2nd or 3rd time I opened it) and now I have sound on all websites. I think that you should at least receive a message when installing firefox that without pulseaudio you won't have sound, especially because it's not a required dependency.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Latest Firefox here makes sound, no PA installed.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This thread got me sound again.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060964-highlight-firefox.html
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So I should install firefox without pulseaudio use flag? I use firefox-bin tho
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should either do one of these:
- not using firefox-bin and build your own without pulseaudio useflag
- use firefox-bin but with pulseaudio (if i remember well, someone suggest it works with apulse too)
- use a firefox version older than the one where they force pulseaudio on anyone (i think it came with v52)
- drop firefox and use another browser (opera is building really fast, and do the job)
Code:
    Mon Apr 10 08:35:33 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-52.0.1-r1
       merge time: 26 minutes and 39 seconds.
     Wed Apr  5 16:43:27 2017 >>> www-client/opera-44.0.2510.857
       merge time: 54 seconds.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

krinn wrote:
- drop firefox and use another browser (opera is building really fast, and do the job)


I believe Opera is a binary only package, which is why it emerges so fast.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

> - use a firefox version older than the one where they force pulseaudio on anyone (i think it came with v52)

Pretty weird that firefox developers force you to go that route if you do not have pulseaudio. It is like
a co-op with systemd. Wonder when Gentoo will be usurped next. ;)
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All versions I've tried without pulseaudio crash/segfaults.
If I click any related video on YouTube I get this:

FF40:
Code:

Thread 70 "Media Audio" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.


FF51+
Code:

Thread 72 "MediaPl~back #2" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.


Did you find a version of firefox-bin that works without pulseaudio?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:40 am    Post subject: Re: No sound in firefox without pulseaudio Reply with quote

Windmill wrote:
Hi, after I upgraded the system last time, I had no sound. I initially thought it was a problem with my video cards, or some alsa problems. But after trying some applications, I discovered I wasn't getting sound only in firefox. So I Installed pulseaudio (I received a warning on firefox when I went to youtube to install pulseaudio or else no sound, but that only after 2nd or 3rd time I opened it) and now I have sound on all websites. I think that you should at least receive a message when installing firefox that without pulseaudio you won't have sound, especially because it's not a required dependency.

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1068146.htm
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:40 pm Post subject: Report this post Reply with quote
I had a similar problem: I had a firefox 52.2 with alsa (no pulseaudio) and I could play YouTube videos. Then I re-emerged firefox (same USE flags) and sound for YouTube videos was gone...

In my case, the solution was:
1) open a new tab, goto about:config
2) set browser.tabs.remote.autostart and browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 to FALSE
3) restart firefox

Believe it or not: sound was back! Incredible!

See: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627426


Works fine on my systems: Xfce, Alsa, Firefox 52.2.0
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

krinn wrote:
You should either do one of these:
- not using firefox-bin and build your own without pulseaudio useflag
- use firefox-bin but with pulseaudio (if i remember well, someone suggest it works with apulse too)
- use a firefox version older than the one where they force pulseaudio on anyone (i think it came with v52)
- drop firefox and use another browser (opera is building really fast, and do the job)


For firefox-bin with apulse, see this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1063930-start-0.html
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another alternative browser would be palemoon (from overlay.)

Any experience on using it with ALSA would be good to read, as would JACK usage (if it makes a difference.)
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you want to use JACK, firefox still has support for that.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have reverted the bpf sandbox change, if you sync and re-emerge firefox you will find your alsa sound works as you are expecting it to. Once firefox-52.x reaches EOL we will only support pulseaudio.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is possible make sound work in Firefox without install pulseaudio.

1. Install media-sound/apulse
2. As root in a terminal do: patchelf --set-rpath /usr/lib/apulse /opt/firefox/libxul.so

done

Let it rock, hear the sound
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

steveL wrote:
Another alternative browser would be palemoon (from overlay.)

Any experience on using it with ALSA would be good to read, as would JACK usage (if it makes a difference.)

I use palemoon-bin with straight ALSA and youtube videos play fine. No jack, no pulseaudio.

BTW, I much prefer it to firefox which seems to get worse with every iteration (like openrc!), for some websites (my bank, but not my broker) you have to play with about:config to lie and say that you are the latest firefox.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

soundrolf wrote:
It is possible make sound work in Firefox without install pulseaudio.

1. Install media-sound/apulse
2. As root in a terminal do: patchelf --set-rpath /usr/lib/apulse /opt/firefox/libxul.so

done

Let it rock, hear the sound


I had to quote this for it usefulness, especially as later versions will not "support" alsa.
apulse has been a savior in this regard, who would have thought 10 years ago we would make a shim around a complex failure to stear a robust backend?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is this package "www-client/firefox-bin-52.4.1"
New installed Gentoo October 30 2017
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:03 pm    Post subject: Re: No sound in firefox without pulseaudio Reply with quote

Windmill wrote:
Hi, after I upgraded the system last time, I had no sound. I initially thought it was a problem with my video cards, or some alsa problems. But after trying some applications, I discovered I wasn't getting sound only in firefox. So I Installed pulseaudio (I received a warning on firefox when I went to youtube to install pulseaudio or else no sound, but that only after 2nd or 3rd time I opened it) and now I have sound on all websites. I think that you should at least receive a message when installing firefox that without pulseaudio you won't have sound, especially because it's not a required dependency.


HIYA,
Experienced same thing after FF update (AFAIK FF ver. 56). Solved this way: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA#HTML5_does_not_play_in_a_browser
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