Firefox52/Pulseaudio/No Sound (Solved)

[whynosound2]

I think we are confused about a few things.

The first thing is that the Quantum package that you created is not needed because it's easy to do all of those things.

The answer to your question is that I set the sandbox to 0 in about:config.

But like I told you, the sound does not always work there. It looks like it does because you can play a YouTube video. Then you can't play others. So unless your test was of lots of videos from many sources I am not confident that yours works either because you basically did the same things I did.

About the Tor Browser bundle it is absolutely insane to think that anyone would use a bundle that was not created by the Tor devs. So I won't even think about that.

You said that apulse is the solution that will work in Xenial but *IT DOES NOT WORK IN XENIAL* like I said.

So basically what you are saying is "Sound in FF does not work in Puppy anymore and some people are okay with it working badly and everyone else can fuck off."

Okay fine. I am done with Puppy. I will see what Barry K is cooking up these days. I'm sure it's much better than Puppy has turned into.

[whynosound2]

Do you really not know what getfirefox.org is? You know, *the* place to download Firefox? Now I know why everything in Xenial doesn't work. Icons on top of each other, missing drivers. You are not smart.

[OscarTalks]

Puppy is developed by a relatively small community of volunteers who are usually friendly and polite towards each other. If you wish to flag up issues with view to resolving them within Puppy that is fine, or if you wish to receive help or suggestions to get your own system working that is fine too.

However, you do need to ask your questions, understand the answers and present your responses in a more intelligent manner.

The getfirefox.org domain just re-directs to the mozilla.org domain that I mentioned, so it should be fine, but your statement was wrong.

Some users do like to have a package that they can install easily without having to do any internal tweaks, so your statement was wrong.

Browser development tends to be quite frantic and this includes changes to multimedia playback support as well as security. Flash Player for example is being phased out or more tightly-secured and some websites have moved away from it. A tester can not test everything, so the sensible thing for you to do would be to give an example of a website or video that does NOT work (if you are saying that some do and some don't). Why has it not occurred to you to do this?

The point about Tor Browser is that it is different from Firefox and the steps I took to get sound working are different. You posted that you were trying to get Firefox working and only when I pushed you did you reveal that in fact it was Tor Browser. A smart person would give the correct name of the program when asking a question.

[mikeslr]

@ whynosound2

Oscartalk's response reflects the courtesy and understanding characteristic of those who use Puppies and participate in this Forum.

I find it odd that you're having difficulty with Xenialpup which has been my main OS for two years, running flawlessly; and of which few "bug reports" have been posted for most of that period. Even odder that you're having difficulty with firefox, especially after fredx181 published portable versions for both 32-and-64 bit operating systems with builtin sound modules.

Occasionally, a newbie's posts reflect both his/her ignorance, obstinate desire to 'just do it my way' and anger when others don't fall in line. Puppy is a family of operating systems published and maintained by fans. There are threads explaining how to build your own Puppy or DebianDog for those who 'want to do it their way'. There are a slew of other distros to choose from. You're welcome to do it your way. You're welcome to leave. You won't be missed.

mikesLr

[port]

Thanks to Oscar Talks (Oscar in England) for the fix using apulse-0.1.11. It worked fabulously for me on Xenialpup 7.5 with the latest updates/bugfixes as of October 2018.

I got it working with FF 63.0. Nice to hear audio again in FireFox!

Running nicely on a lenovo IBM ThikPad T60

Thank you Oscar Talks!
Thank you Puppy Linux Community (once again)!

[oui]

seamonkey 2.49.4 seems don't to have suche bugs. but it seems don't to work with pulsesomewhat but with alsa... else i would prefer have pulse and I would prefer really know how to use pulse and hold it's opulence in commando line as the tools are not usable at all (the creator's of tools are inapt to understand that the surface of the screen is limited and will require for a simple slide switch the place permitting to look at a action video! they see herself as more as very important VIP's!)

[whynosound2]

Sound still does not work for tahr pup.

Installed Oscar's apulse (12) by pet and also copied the lib files into /opt/firefox

Changed the about:config setting to "security.sandbox... 0"

But there is no sound. Does anyone have this working? What did you do?

[watchdog]

Installed Oscar's apulse (12) by pet and also copied the lib files into /opt/firefox

I think the new apulse must be used as a wrapper script. Try to launch firefox with:

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apulse /path-to/firefox

[whynosound2]

Installed Oscar's apulse (12) by pet and also copied the lib files into /opt/firefox

I think the new apulse must be used as a wrapper script. Try to launch firefox with:

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apulse /path-to/firefox

That worked thanks.

[whynosound2]

@watchdog etc Firefox updated and now this doesn't work anymore even with security.sandbox 0 and using as a wrapper script. Does anyone else have this working?

[watchdog]

I synced my profile with firefox 68.0 in bionicpup64. Starting firefox with the apulse wrapper the sound works for me:

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apulse /path-to/firefox 

Try a new profile.

I think firefox has gone on a bad way. I was convinced some weeks ago to synchronize my profile. Now it pretends the firefox install on my tablet (I haven't a smartphone) on every sync operation. I think I seldom will use it.

[fredx181]

apulse /path-to/firefox

Sound works for me too with firefox 68.0
The security.sandbox setting isn't needed, btw.
Fred

[Mike Walsh]

apulse /path-to/firefox

Sound works for me too with firefox 68.0
The security.sandbox setting isn't needed, btw.
Fred

Same here. Just gone into 'portable-Firefox' for the first time in nearly a week - Palemoon is getting a lot of use ATM! - and let the updater do its thing from 67.0.4 to 68.0. Sound's working fine; I'm listening to Radiotunes right now, as I type this in Slacko 560.


Mike.

[whynosound2]

When I put security.sandbox to 2 it started working magically. I'm on Xenial by the way.