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Re: No sound in Firefox

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On 03/20/2017 03:16 PM, songbird wrote:
> 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
>
It's working, now.  Not sure what the problem was, but after purging and 
reinstalling PulseAudio I now have sound that works in the latest 
Firefox.  I still think that it would be better if this hard requirement 
did not exist, but at least it is working now.  I just hope that 
whatever the problem was (years back) that caused me to purge PulseAudio 
in the first place has been fixed and does not come back to bite me.

I think that I'll keep my copy of Firefox v51.0.1 around for a while, 
until I am sure that I don't need to revert to it.

Marc

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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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