Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> I have a machine here running a freshly updated and rebooted Debian
>>> testing where I can't get Firefox (more specifically `firefox-esr`) to
>>> use audio.

  i'm running the unstable firefox (otherwise the rest is 
testing) with no issues that i've noticed so far on audio.

  i do have pulseaudio installed along with pipewire-pulse.


>> Check if installing apulse helps. It's supposed to make obstinate apps like
>> Firefox act as though pulseaudio is installed, dead technology, which is not
>> needed when pipewire and wireplumber are working.
>
> Hmm... let's see.
> Hmm... no, didn't make a difference: after installing `apulse` the same
> `firefox -P` still behaves identically (with the same error messages),
> and so does `apulse firefox -P`.

  hmmm...


  songbird