Re: Firefox and sound backends

From: S.N.Grigoriev <serguey-grigoriev_at_yandex.ru>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:26:10 UTC

> Am 18. April 2023 08:48:52 MESZ schrieb Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 03:39:27AM +0300, S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, list,
>>>
>>> after upgrading Firefox from v.111 to v.112 PulseAudio is required for sound output.
>>> Other backends do not work. Is such a behavior normal and expected?
>>> Firefox v.111 and earlier, in contrast, worked fine for me with Sndio as the only
>>> sound backend.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Serguey.
>>
>> FYI, I am running firefox 112 with the oss backend just fine.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bapt
> 
> There seems to be a problem:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270436
> 
> I, too, now have sound only via pulseaudio.
> 
> There is a workaround in the ticket.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mathias
> 
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Hi, Mathias,

thanks for your response! It works for me!

Regards,
Serguey.