On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Stefan Monnier composed on 2024-08-14 15:32 (UTC-0400): > > > I have a machine here running a freshly updated and rebooted Debian > > testing where I can't get Firefox (more specifically `firefox-esr`) to > > use audio. > > Check if installing apulse helps. It's supposed to make obstinate apps like > Firefox act as though pulseaudio is installed, dead technology, which is not > needed when pipewire and wireplumber are working.
Apulse won't reconcile Firefox with pulseaudio, it just does a LD_PRELOAD trick to convince Firefox it's talking to pulseaudio while it is actually talking (through a shim) to ALSA. I've been using it successfully with oldstable. With stable and Firefox ESR (115.12.0esr-1~deb12u1) I haven't succeeded, alas. So I doubt it'll work with apulse if it refuses to work with pulseaudio. And -- don't forget: you have to call the browser "through" apulse, i.e. "apulse firefox <params>" to let apulse do its LD_PRELOAD trick. Cheers -- t
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