FireFox requires PulseAudio for sound; how to install?

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mike001 · #46 Post by **mike001** » Wed 03 May 2017, 01:29

Thanks Oscartalks! One more bug worked out for me.

artsown · #47 Post by **artsown** » Thu 15 Jun 2017, 23:13

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 · #48 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 00:05

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

Mike.

Puppyt · #49 Post by **Puppyt** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 08:18

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 · #50 Post by **ac2011** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 12:13

artsown wrote: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...

B.K. Johnson · #51 Post by **B.K. Johnson** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 13:24

What distributions are you guys running?
Where have you got FF installed?
Do you use Flash? What add-ons?
What hardware?

FF and Seamonkey have been installed on my tahr for an eternity; my FF updated itself yesterday to 45.0; I don't have apulse installed and I use VLC and DeadBeef to play my local .mp3s (even as I type this) and listen to youtube offerings (just did). I have YouTube ALL HTML5 as an add-on. You guys are giving FF a bad rap! Got to be another reason/reasons for your failures.

ac2011 · #52 Post by **ac2011** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 13:58

B.K. Johnson wrote:What distributions are you guys running?
Where have you got FF installed?
Do you use Flash? What add-ons?
What hardware?

FF and Seamonkey have been installed on my tahr for an eternity; my FF updated itself yesterday to 45.0; I don't have apulse installed and I use VLC and DeadBeef to play my local .mp3s (even as I type this) and listen to youtube offerings (just did). I have YouTube ALL HTML5 as an add-on. You guys are giving FF a bad rap! Got to be another reason/reasons for your failures.

FF 52 ESR works fine (HTML5 audio). FF 54 does not. Same hardware, same (minimal) plugins, same location, no flash. I'm no newbie: I've been doing this stuff for decades.

It's not hugely surprising that 54 doesn't do what ESR 52 does, as even Google warns that there are ongoing changes to FF that render some media playback - even Google hangouts video - 'temporarily' unusable on FF for now.

I'm not giving FF a bad rap. FF 52 ESR is the most effective 32-bit Linux browser I've found for HTML5 media. But 54 is, at least in that respect, a big step backward.

watchdog · #53 Post by **watchdog** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 18:16

Apulse is defective. I realized it first using skype 4.3 and then recent Firefox. My package pulseaudio-4.0-tahr606-i386.pet is working in slacko 700rc, thar6.0.6 and other recent puppies:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 288#947288

Tested working firefox 54.0.

artsown · #54 Post by **artsown** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 21:19

@watchdog

What about 64 bit versions of tahrpup and xenialpup?

Art

ferretgrandpa · #55 Post by **ferretgrandpa** » Fri 16 Jun 2017, 22:06

slacko 5.7.0 PAE Frugal on usb, Firefox 54.0 (32bit) with current Shockwave Flash (v24.0), installed apulse-0.1.9 pet from ppm

Sound works fine

tried on 2 different computers, same results

Tom

watchdog · #56 Post by **watchdog** » Sat 17 Jun 2017, 04:00

artsown wrote:@watchdog

What about 64 bit versions of tahrpup and xenialpup?

If you are going to try pulseaudio in 64 bit puppies then I have posted some experiments:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 004#957004

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 004#951004

ETP · #57 Post by **ETP** » Sat 17 Jun 2017, 09:21

Hi folks,

I am currently using Waterfox64 instead of Firefox when pulseaudio is an issue. (eg Quirky Xerus 64)
The author is sticking with alsa. You may wish to give it a try.

Code: Select all

Waterfox64_53.0.1|Waterfox64_53.0.1|53.0.1||Internet|177816K||Waterfox64_53.0.1.pet||Web Browser|ubuntu|xenial||

Direct download link for pet follows:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=down ... UVaSlptbnc

artsown · #58 Post by **artsown** » Sat 17 Jun 2017, 10:07

@ watchdog

Success! In Xenialpup64, I followed your suggestion to install pulseaudio
via the PPM even though it claims it's already installed. I installed all
three of the "already installed" including pulseaudio_8.0

I use a Startup script:
pulseaudio --system
pulseaudio --start

and that's it! I checked and made sure that no pulseaudio --kill seems to
be required. Other browsers don't seem to be affected. Audio in music
and video players aren't affected.

Firefox 54 is now working well. I haven't yet tried to follow your
suggestions for tahrpup64.

I appreciate your help! Thanks.

Art

artsown · #59 Post by **artsown** » Sat 17 Jun 2017, 11:03

@watchdog

Tahrpup64 same as with Xenialpup64. Install the three checked items
via PPM, use Startup script, and all is well with Firefox 54. BTW, my
tahrpup64 is using the 4.9.15 kernel.

Art

artsown · #60 Post by **artsown** » Sat 17 Jun 2017, 17:38

@watchdog

Your method for slacko64 worked fine on version 6.9.9.9

Art

RickGT351 · #61 Post by **RickGT351** » Thu 06 Jul 2017, 07:31

OscarTalks I have tried clicking on the link for http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/apulse-0.1.8-i686-wz.pet but the link isn't working

James C · #62 Post by **James C** » Thu 06 Jul 2017, 07:51

I believe there are new pets.......

Try this link.....

http://www.smokey01.com/OscarTalks/apul ... 686-wz.pet

OscarTalks · #63 Post by **OscarTalks** » Thu 06 Jul 2017, 11:25

Thanks for posting the updated link, JamesC
I have edited the links in my posts on the first page of this thread.
However, people should note that there have been reports of problems with the latest Firefox version(s). See the previous page of this thread. I thought about removing the apulse packages.

The apulse program was only ever a work-around, so people should always experiment (taking precautions) to see what works and what doesn't.

My packages overwrite any pulse libraries so as not to require a wrapper script. This means that any other installed programs that use pulse will also be linking via apulse.

The alternative method is to place the apulse libs in another location and launch via a wrapper script, but this means that the script is then required. One idea is to unpack the apulse libs into the firefox main directory since the executable finds libraries that are there and (I believe) gives them priority.

With latest Firefox though, something else seems to be fundamentaly wrong so work is needed by the apulse author (or the Firefox devs).

Others have provided links to pulseaudio packages. I have some version 2.1 pets that might work in older Puppies. Firefox 54.0.1 with pulseaudio 2.1 worked for me in Wheezy but pulseaudio is a daemon so you have to make provisions to start it with "pulseaudio --start".
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks

peebee · #64 Post by **peebee** » Fri 11 Aug 2017, 09:34

Firefox-55.0.3 32bit .sfs for LxPupSc (may work on other "modern" Pups but untested....)

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 886#963886

p.s. doesn't seem to be a general Firefox thread so posted here because the .sfs includes a sound fix for Puppy / alsa

augras · #65 Post by **augras** » Sat 26 Aug 2017, 14:12

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your pet : it works fine for me on tahrpup6.0.6 32bits with portable firefox52ESR download on mozilla web site.
Netflix works also : a great thanks.
Philippe

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