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Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox

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not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

> Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> wrote:
>> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:
>>> Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks for the all the info.  It seems that apulse does it well for me.
>> I'm good with it.  But I don't think Firefox should crash for whatever
>> reason---as no program should.
>
> It could be apulse that's crashing, not Firefox. Since apulse works
> as a library it could do that.

You're right.  The bug could be in one of apulse's library.

> If you want to help the cause of software stability, best contact
> the apulse developer/s. But I'd argue the real bug is having ALSA
> support disabled in Firefox in the first place. If you can convince
> the person who packages Firefox for your distro to enable ALSA
> support in their builds, then you could cut out this needless
> complexity entirely.

Okay.  I don't have an opinion there.  Thanks for your thoughts.

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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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