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Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working

From	Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working
Date	2020-04-25 00:00 +0200
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On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 22:40 +0200, 007@caiway.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my debian stable firefox 75 the sound stopped working.
> 
> Another user does have sound on stock firefox.
> 
> I can not go back to stock firefox, my profile of firefox 75 can not
> be
> loaded any longer.
> 
> 7 Chapters of troubleshooting pulseaudio did not help me in 4 hours:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting
> 
> Another thing from this guy Pottering does not give any hint:
> 
> journalctl -f 
> journalctl -f | grep pulseaudio
> 
> nothing
> 
> pulsemixer does seem to be alright:
> firefox: AudioStream is showing up, I can select it, and set volume
> (but
> no sound).
> 
> but:
> $ pactl list sink-inputs 
> no output at all
> 
> $ pacmd list-sink-inputs 
> 0 sink input(s) available.
> 
> 
> I am left clueless.
> (no timidity here installed.
> alsamixer shows the pulseaudio interface, unmuted)
> 
> [
> I hate pulseaudio since when I had a linux terminal server project
> LAN.
> In those days pulseaudio fucked up all LAN audio playing.
> ]
> 
> Waterfox and Palemoon browsers both play audio well.
> 
> Hope someone can give a hint
> 
> Thanks 4 reading
> 
> 

Hi,

Where did you source the firefox 75 you are using with debian
buster/stable?

Regards

Phil

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firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-24 23:00 +0200
  Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2020-04-25 00:00 +0200
    Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-25 14:30 +0200
  Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-04-25 13:30 +0200
  Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2020-04-25 13:50 +0200
  Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-04-25 23:00 +0200
    Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-25 23:50 +0200
      Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-04-26 08:10 +0200
        Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-26 12:50 +0200
          Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-26 12:50 +0200
            Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-26 13:30 +0200
              Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-26 14:10 +0200
                Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-26 17:10 +0200
                Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working [SOLVED] "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-26 17:30 +0200
                Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-04-26 19:50 +0200
                Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working [SOLVED] "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-04-26 20:40 +0200
                Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working [SOLVED] Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-04-26 21:10 +0200
                Re: firefox 75 pulseaudio sound suddenly stopped working deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-04-26 17:10 +0200

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