Firefox 107.0 (64-bit) and ALSA

[Member blur13]

Hi,

I’ve got the latest firefox stable directly from Mozilla. There is no sound. Using apulse does not work. I’ve searched the forum and tried the solutions offered but I think they are outdated. I’ve also searched online. I can’t get it working.

Its funny how “evil” chrome works flawlessly with ALSA but “benevolent” Firefox requires “evil” pulseaudio for sound.

Anyone got this working?

Thanks

Edit:
This is on antiX 19.5, in case that makes a difference.

• This topic was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by blur13.

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi blur 13,
Pls complain on Mozilla forums, setting output to pulse only is an ignorant compile option.

I was told long ago by fox devs telemetry data shows nobody uses pulse.
I answered only the insane let fox send telemetry data and that moz claims to be privacy concious,
my posts were removed after a short time. I revisited the chosen answer still stands.
You could compile Firefox yourself with –disable-pulseaudio –enable-alsa

Trouble is compiling fox takes hours and needs 32 GB Memory according to some posts in dev forums.

did you try putting FF in /opt making a personal menu launcher with
apulse firefox at end of your start command

My personal recommendation is to use Librewolf latest the distro supplied LTS (for commercial usage) version.
It is also up to date and allows a lot of modification which is blocked, again at compile time in main version.

Just checked latest Librewolf, todays update that is, gives sound on my sid setup. No Pulse here.

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[Moderator caprea]

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Normally if you install latest firefox with packageinstaller it must be started with apulse eg from terminal
apulse firefox
or you change the menu entry or desktop-file or however.
How do you start the downloaded firefox with apulse?

[Member olsztyn]

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blur13 wrote:

Its funny how “evil” chrome works flawlessly with ALSA but “benevolent” Firefox requires “evil” pulseaudio for sound.

One of the most interesting observations of nowadays reality… Something that was considered as oxymoron in the past, such as ‘democratic totalitarian government’ became a norm of our Western World…
It is only a matter of degree whether Firefox is more evil than Chrome or vice versa. Between both they have divided 90% of users. About just 90, because we should give some share of users for Microsoft browser too… Any competition still alive?..
Has the time come yet for the final battle for total control of the user world?

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member blur13]

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Caprea,

From the terminal

apulse /opt/firefox/firefox

or rather apulse firefox

with firefox being a symlink for the /opt..

You think the version in the package installer will work with apulse? Does it work for you?

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Yes, it’s 106 and antiX22 though.

Edit: To move the downloaded 107 firefox to /opt and start it with with apulse works here, too. On antiX22.

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You can create a personal menu for any applications in opt easily with the
control center personal menu menu tool.

First click add
then any any application, change the name to Firefox or whatever you have,
add the path prefixing the binary name with apulse, click the use a different
icon box, continue, chose an icon and finish.

I setup Libreoffice and Ungoogledchromium that way. Libreoffice downloaded from
LO.org as the debian version does not recognize java. Or I am to daft to get it working.

Occasionaly I have needed to set an added menu item to show.

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