Firefox on XO

[James Cameron]

G'day Terry,

You didn't mention which version of Firefox.

With firefox-26.0-2 from the Fedora 18 repository your no-sound issue
with those sites reproduces.

Then I installed apulse, a PulseAudio emulation for ALSA, but the
problem persisted.  Looking at /proc/$(pidof firefox)/smaps the
libpulse libraries are not mapped.

Which Firefox are you trying, and how are you trying it?

References:

https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse (source)
https://github.com/vitvegl/apulse-rpm (for the spec file)

dependencies: gcc-c++ gcc-sh-linux-gnu cmake alsa-lib-devel glib2-devel alsa-lib glib2

On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:52:39AM +1000, T Gillett wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have installed Firefox on the current 13.2.8 build on XO-1.5 and it works OK
> except that there is no sound on some websites.
> Other sites work OK.
> 
> This seems to be a known problem:
>     [1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803042
>     [2]http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277040
>     [3]https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65978/fedora-21-fi
> refox-3603-and-flash-no-sound-system-sound-fine/
>     [4]http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144395/
> firefox-html5-asoundrc-no-sound
> 
> The issue seems to revolve around getting FF to use ALSA for sound, and without
> installing PulseAudio.
>  
> I am wondering if anyone using Firefox on XO has encountered and/or solved this
> problem.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help on this.
> Terry
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Some sites for testing the audio. Open any of these in a new tab and you should
> hear audio.
> 
> 1.    [5]http://student.readingeggs.com//sample_lessons/#/sample/lesson/6/
> activity/1
> No sound on XO.
> 
> 2.    [6]http://vt-motoli.org/CG/cg_03/cg_03.html#l-en
> No sound on XO.
> 
> 3.    [7]http://robbbenson.com/01%20Eve.mp3
> Sound OK.
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803042
> [2] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=277040
> [3] https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/65978/fedora-21-firefox-3603-and-flash-no-sound-system-sound-fine/
> [4] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144395/firefox-html5-asoundrc-no-sound
> [5] http://student.readingeggs.com//sample_lessons/#/sample/lesson/6/activity/2
> [6] http://vt-motoli.org/CG/cg_03/cg_03.html#l-en
> [7] http://robbbenson.com/01%20Eve.mp3

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