Re: Firefox and sound backends

Reply: Martin Dieringer : "Re: Firefox and sound backends"
Reply: S.N.Grigoriev : "Re: Firefox and sound backends"
In reply to: Baptiste Daroussin : "Re: Firefox and sound backends"
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From: Mathias Picker <Mathias.Picker_at_virtual-earth.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:04:20 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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