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| Message-ID | <6aac65be@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
|---|---|
| From | not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) |
| Subject | Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox |
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.firefox |
| References | <87h5jyeit0.fsf@safunu.org> <117t80m$1lvto$1@dont-email.me> <87v78d8a9v.fsf@safunu.org> |
| Date | 2026-09-18 08:12 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes: >> On Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:11 -0300, Anton Antimo wrote: >>> I use ALSA on this GNU Void---see my ~/asoundrc below---, so in >>> order to be able to get sound out of Firefox, I run it with the >>> program apulse >> >> I don't understand why that's necessary. PulseAudio provides its own >> ALSA emulation on top of the real ALSA. And PulseAudio is obsolete >> anyway, replaced with PipeWire which is functionally compatible and >> also provides corresponding services for video. > > I agree---if I were running pulseaudio or pipewire. I'm running no such > daemon. My understanding is that Firefox is programmed to speak to > PulseAudio, not ALSA, Actually ALSA support can still be enabled when Firefox is compiled by uncommenting "ac_add_options --enable-audio-backends=alsa" in mozconfig. Unfortunately some distros don't do that when packaging Firefox, nor do Mozilla themselves for their own Linux binaries. > but then apulse reroutes the calls to ALSA and now I don't need > pulseaudio or pipewire. That's probably still easier the compiling Firefox yourself if you can't use a package built with ALSA enabled. Although you could try asking the Firefox package maintainer for your distro to enable ALSA support in their builds. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#
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apulse firefox crashes firefox Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-09 09:00 -0300
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox "Stanislav N. aka pztrn" <pztrn@oldproto.invalid> - 2026-09-10 07:27 +0500
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-10 11:39 -0300
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-10 03:26 +0000
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-10 11:13 -0300
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-14 23:12 +0000
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2026-09-16 18:38 +0200
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-16 12:23 -0300
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-17 04:13 +0000
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-22 11:54 -0300
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-09-18 08:12 +1000
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-22 11:57 -0300
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-09-23 07:33 +1000
Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-22 20:24 -0300
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