1913629 - Asof approx version 126, Firefox requires exclusive output for sounds (older versions allowed Firefox to mix outputs wiht background music/sounds). Request Firefox to mix with background sounds

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Fenix :: Media, enhancement)

Description

[2002luvabbaluvu]

Steps to reproduce:

Execute sounds (such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDbRm-98cs) through Firefox

Actual results:

Background sounds (such as Video Lan Codec) stopped/paused

Expected results:

Background sounds continue

Comment 1

[2002luvabbaluvu]

Attachment: Firefox has exclusive sound access.png

Comment 2

[2002luvabbaluvu]

Attachment: Firefox pauses background sounds.png

Comment 3

[2002luvabbaluvu]

The fix is to use about:config's to do javascript.enabled=false,

• use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux for youtubedr (https://github.com/thn-tools/YouTubedr) with

``apt-get install youtubedr
youtubedr download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDbRm-98cs && mv *.mp4 ~/storage/downloads/`

+ use custom file managers (such as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.fx) to launch X.mp4

Bonus: `javascript.enabled=false` fixes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1681603

Comment 4

[2002luvabbaluvu]

Can not edit Markdown.
The fix is to use about:config's to do javascript.enabled=false
use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux 's youtubedr (https://github.com/thn-tools/YouTubedr) with

apt-get install youtubedr
youtubedr download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDbRm-98cs && mv *.mp4 ~/storage/downloads/

• use custom file managers (such as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.fx) to launch X.mp4

Bonus: javascript.enabled=false fixes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1681603

Comment 5

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

If this is a regression you should be able to use mozregression to get a regression range.

Comment 6

[2002luvabbaluvu]

(In reply to Robert Longson [:longsonr] from comment #5)

If this is a regression you should be able to use mozregression to get a regression range.

On Android 14, have trouble to use mozregression.
Regression was whichever revision has Firefox switch media output to the OS (as Firefox has exclusive sound access.png shows Firefox now does)
[Previous versions of Firefox use an internal mechanism, which mixes with the OS output]

Comment 7

[2002luvabbaluvu]

Wish to search https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases for "media", but "_This repository has been archived by the owner on Feb 20, 2023. It is now read-only. _" prevents this.
Wish to use https://www.google.com/search?q=Media+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2F+intitle%3A%22Release+Notes%22 but https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/*/releasenotes/ is not for Fenix but Firefox

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The canonical source code for the mobile browser is the main Firefox repository, available at https://hg.mozilla.org (for now) and https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev. A better search tool is https://searchfox.org