Re: No sound in Firefox

From	songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: No sound in Firefox
Date	2017-03-20 23:20 +0100
Message-ID	<tndOG-2IK-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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 sound in Firefox.  Also, no 
> sound anywhere else.  I uninstalled PulseAudio and sound came back 
> (except for Firefox).  I reverted Firefox to v51.0.1 and I have sound 
> everywhere.
>
> I would like to reinstall PulseAudio so that I can upgrade Firefox, but 
> I can't get it to work.  Can anyone help me get sound working with 
> PulseAudio?

  make sure you have everything installed that you need.


  i had to go find a missing chunk and add it when
this happened to me:

(you may not need the development stuff, but ...)


$ dpkg -l | grep pulse

ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386                     1.10.4-1                                                i386         GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libpulse-dev:i386                                10.0-1                                                  i386         PulseAudio client development headers and libraries
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386                     10.0-1                                                  i386         PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:i386                                   10.0-1                                                  i386         PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:i386                                 10.0-1                                                  i386         PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  pulseaudio                                       10.0-1                                                  i386         PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils                                 10.0-1                                                  i386         Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server


=================

  hth,


  songbird

Thread

No sound in Firefox Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 22:00 +0100
  Re: No sound in Firefox Václav Ovsík <vaclav.ovsik@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 22:10 +0100
  Re: No sound in Firefox Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-03-20 22:10 +0100
  Re: No sound in Firefox songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-20 23:20 +0100
    Re: No sound in Firefox Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-03-21 00:00 +0100

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