Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio
>> I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at
>> some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference
>> of course.
> You do not have AAC in the list of supported codecs and I am unsure if it is
> due to alsa backend or due to a missed package (libfdk-aac2,
> gstreamer1.0-fdkaac?).
I'm not too worried about that for now. The lack of audio device was the
more pressing concern 🙂
>>> Firefox exposes some codec info in about:support#media
>> Thanks. When I "disable sandboxing" (by setting the three vars
>> I mentioned in my answer to Tomas) it says:
> I would revert these settings to defaults unless you have confirmed that
> they are really necessary.
Of course.
>> Audio Backend: alsa
> I have pulse-rust here.
Same for me when things work 🙂
> If you still have motivation to debug i386 vs. amd64 issue, have you
> tried to start firefox with a clean profile (--profile /some/dir)?
Yup, no difference.
> I would check if there are earlier messages related to audio backend, maybe
> during firefox startup. Perhaps verbosity of some component should be
> increased
>
> https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/xpcom/logging.html
Thanks for the pointer!
Stefan
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