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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:
>> 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 And PulseAudio is obsolete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.

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.

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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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