1385886 - No audio playback - pulseaudio seems to be required. ALSA is the standard sound system

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1345661

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Schuster]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170628145605

Steps to reproduce:

I have updated firefox from 51 to 54.


Actual results:

No sound playback - note with "install pulseaudio" appears. Our installation won't have pulseaudio or jack, only ALSA.


Expected results:

I want a sound playback.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Same problem here after upgrading one of my laptops from 45ESR to 52ESR. I found "apulse" on github which is a wrapper which makes it work, but it's far from ideal.

I'd hope that FF developers reconsider their choices, because breaking sound on supported distros while at the same time trying to constantly encourage users to upgrade is not compatible. I'm rolling back to 45ESR (which works fine) and will only upgrade to a new version when I decide to upgrade my distro.

It's really sad to have to choose between security and sound. Really.

By the way my home PC has pulseaudio installed and firefox works very poorly there. I happen to have an extra sound card on the PCI bus and once in a while for an unknown reason the sound changes to the other card, so I have to go behind the PC, unplug the cable and connect it into the other plug. This sound system is horrible to use and I definitely don't want to have to support this on my everyday laptop!

Comment 2

[Snaut]

Security is not the only issue with PulseAudio - it is the single most CPU gobbling process on my system apart from Xorg. This has always been a problem with PulseAudio. 

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                         
 1152 root      20   0  500740 151088 125404 S   2.3  1.9  90:50.83 Xorg                                                                                                            
 1574 me         9 -11  492508  14408   9224 S   5.0  0.2  70:21.19 pulseaudio

Comment 3

[Snaut]

(In reply to Snaut from comment #2)
> Security is not the only issue with PulseAudio - it is the single most CPU
> gobbling process on my system apart from Xorg. This has always been a
> problem with PulseAudio. 
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND 
> 
>  1152 root      20   0  500740 151088 125404 S   2.3  1.9  90:50.83 Xorg    
> 
>  1574 me         9 -11  492508  14408   9224 S   5.0  0.2  70:21.19
> pulseaudio

I should add to that, that this system very rarely plays audio at all - I use a different machine for music and the only sounds produced locally are IM/email notifications and (rarely) YouTube videos. I think it's unacceptable for such an insignificant process to consume this much resource.

Comment 5

[RTK]

I beg you to reconsider the decision of dropping ALSA for the sake of lightweight community, please, see https://support.mozilla.org/pt-BR/questions/1172578