On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Marc Shapiro wrote:
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
I have exactly the same problem, but for me installing the listed packages
didn't solve it. I must then continue with v51.
the sound works everywhere, but in firefox versions > v51.
Any idea ?
I can't understand why firefox is the only browser with this issue.
best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel
