FireFox requires PulseAudio for sound; how to install?

[Semme]

You only need to quote when it's relevant, and then, selectively.

[Mike Walsh]

Interestingly, I've just tried out FF52 in Tahr 6.05 (32-bit).....and have sound straight away in FireFox, without needing to install Oscar's 'aPulse' .pet.

Mind you, this could be because I already have the PulseAudio sound server installed in Tahr, as part of watchdog's 'workaround' for getting video-calling working in Skype..... That's why I've tried FF52 in Tahr; to see if it would work straight away.....even though I'm not an FF user in general.

Curiosity killed the cat, so they say.....

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 153#892153

Still can't persuade NetFlix to work, though. It works OOTB in 64-bit FF52......

Weird. And that's despite using my own documented 'workaround' from here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=108334

And having said that, I now find that as of Wednesday this week, you no longer even need to spoof the user-agent in Linux for FF. NetFlix just works.....because they've finally added Linux support for FireFox.




Mike.

[RickGT351]

With

Update: Installed the latest Flash from Adobe website. Can now write comments in youtube

Is this with or without Flash installed?

[Mike Walsh]

As a carry-over from my previous post, I've just installed FF52 in Precise 571, along with Oscar's aPulse .pet.....and everything's behaving itself. Even NetFlix, would you believe!

From what I understand, NetFlix are supposed to have made a few changes at some point last week, which means that all you need to do for watching stuff in 32-bit FF is to enable DRM in Preferences->'Content' (and install aPulse for the sound.)

I'm still using the agent-switcher, though. Doesn't appear to be having any adverse effects....

So there we are. NetFlix in 32-bit FF52 at long last..!


Mike.

[Bud]

Remove Pulse.

Just revisited this and on the latest Tahrpup/Fx52.2 this was the fix.
Many thanks Semme and OscarTalks for the pet .. http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/apulse-0.1.8-i686-wz.pet
Marked my other thread Solved

[casePup337]

Thx all. Mike, Now you have me curious to go try netflix again. I remember trying it out for the kids to use in ubuntu 16.10, not long ago, but the firefox browser didn't support it at that time.

[Wildman69]

Works in xenial 7.0.6 with 4.9.13 kernel that I made with woof-CE.
I now have sound in my Firefox again!
Thank You ever so much.

BTW: The PPM shows that Pulse Audio is installed but I could not find it anywhere.

[Semme]

Look in ~/.packages.

[bigpup]

BTW: The PPM shows that Pulse Audio is installed but I could not find it anywhere.

The pet is not installing Pulse Audio.
It is just installing the needed, Pulse Audio file, to make Firefox work.

[slavvo67]

This conflicts with the Pulseaudio in RU Xerus. I can either get Firefox sound or Dolphin sound (without Apulse) but not both.....

Tried to mix and match the lib files without success, as well.

[spiritwild]

I had installed pulseaudio prior to hearing about apulse. Since I got FF to produce sound, I didn't feel the need to go undo things and try apulse.

I eventually tried it and had some kind of crashing issue with FF. I didn't really bother looking into why, I just went back to what was working.

I had read about FF dropping alsa on different forums, some were just dumbfounded that is has worked for 10 years would be no longer supported. Others defended it to the point of arguing. Suddenly it was as if Alsa was representing the democratic vote and Pulse the republican.

My only issue.... It's just a bump in the road but if you're new to linux/Puppy, these little bumps are road blocks. From what I read, it's very hit or miss depending on your distro.

I only run firefox from Wbar, so I just load a script with pulse and FF and get on with my business. I suppose you can change the .desktop EXEC , run the script, command line , etc

There were a few tweaks here and there with configs but it plays sound so I'm content.

Sound test.... https://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/

[watchdog]

I have found a way to get working pulseaudio-9.0 in slacko64 700 beta. Install it by PPM with pavucontrol and pulseaudio-ctl. Then edit /etc/pulse/default.pa commenting the following lines:

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### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit
### when no local session needs us anymore.
#.ifexists module-console-kit.so
#load-module module-console-kit
#.endif
#.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
#load-module module-systemd-login
#.endif

Now pulseaudio should work:

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pulseaudio --start
firefox
pulseaudio --kill

[artsown]

I was testing google-chrome viewing web page videos and experienced a
very annoying repetitive clicking sound. Uninstalling apulse fixed the
problem.

Edit: I've written script wrappers for Firefox (32 and 64 bit) that enable
apulse only while Firefox is active. Now I can test or use alternate browsers
without interference.

Art

[r__hughes]

As an alternative, try installing this apulse package
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/apulse-0.1.8-i686-wz.pet
Then just run Firefox as normal.
Just a library so no need to start and stop daemons.
Compiled in Wheezy but tested briefly and worked in Slacko 5.7

Works for me & frugal slacko5.7 npae with FFv53 on a Dell Latitude E6420

[Mike Walsh]

I had installed pulseaudio prior to hearing about apulse. Since I got FF to produce sound, I didn't feel the need to go undo things and try apulse.

I eventually tried it and had some kind of crashing issue with FF. I didn't really bother looking into why, I just went back to what was working.

Mm. Couldn't agree more, TBH.

What I take away from all this is very simple; find what works for your system, your hardware, your Pup.....and stick with it. What works for one won't necessarily work for everyone.

The apulse pet wasn't needed for me in Tahrpup 6.05, because I'd already got PulseAudio as part of watchdog's Skype workaround. I installed FF52 to try it out (I'm not an FF user, really.....more of a Chrome guy).....and for me, there was no 'issue' with the sound. It was just there. After mulling it over, I realised why.....and just as quickly thought, 'If it works, don't 'fix' it..!'

So, it's a case of YMMV.... If it's fully functional, leave it the hell alone. Mind you, telling a geek not to 'tinker' is like trying to forbid the sun to rise in the mornings..!


Mike.

[mike001]

Thanks Oscartalks! One more bug worked out for me.

[artsown]

Firefox 54 eliminates audio again in spite of apulse. Other things are
broken with 54 as well. I installed a recent ESR version of FF for the time
being.

Will this crap never end?

Art

[Mike Walsh]

Why d'you think I disowned FireFox years ago in favour of Chrome, back in the autumn of 2008?


Mike.

[Puppyt]

Yeah, also jumped ship. I use Palemoon and Light most often nowadays (yes I know they're mozilla forks but...). and finding myself in FF gives me the same queasy feeling that IE does

[ac2011]

Firefox 54 eliminates audio again in spite of apulse. Other things are
broken with 54 as well. I installed a recent ESR version of FF for the time
being.

Will this crap never end?

Art

Noticed this yesterday too, and reverted to ESR 52.2. How hard can it really be to consistently play audio through a browser? I'm pretty sure we had that feature in 1997...