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Re: apulse firefox crashes firefox

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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 And PulseAudio is obsolete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’ve never had audio problems on Firefox, that I can recall, to do
> with PulseAudio. And certainly not with PipeWire.

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, but then apulse reroutes the calls to ALSA and now
I don't need pulseaudio or pipewire.

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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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