Re: Firefox and sound backends

Mathias Picker schrieb:
> 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.



My 112.0.1,2 has no problem with sndio as the only audio backend:

/usr/ports/www/firefox # make showconfig
===> The following configuration options are available for firefox-
112.0.1,2:
     CANBERRA=off: Sound theme alerts
     DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support
     DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
     FFMPEG=on: FFmpeg support (WMA, AIFF, AC3, APE...)
     LIBPROXY=off: Proxy support via libproxy
     LTO=off: Use Link-Time Optimization
     OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=on: Use extra compiler optimizations
     PROFILE=off: Build with profiling support
     TEST=off: Build and/or run tests
====> Extra cubeb audio backends (OSS is always available)
     ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support
     JACK=off: JACK audio server support
     PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support
     SNDIO=on: Sndio audio support

13.2-STABLE stable/13-n255093-7ae95c1e2260 GENERIC amd64