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famfop

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Registered: 2018-02-07

Posts: 4

firefox nightly without pulseaudio

Hi,
I have been using "standard" firefox installed via pacman and had no issues using it without pulseaudio.
Now I installed Firefox Nightly and get no sound. On the Nightly-IRC they told me that pulseaudio is a dependency and that firefox working without it is due to packaging in archlinux. Now I'm wondering, how can I build Nightly in order to get it running without pulseaudio?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by famfop (2018-07-09 11:24:00)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,852

Re: firefox nightly without pulseaudio

I run [extra]/firefox through the apulse wrapper with great success since june 2017 .
No idea if it will work with firefox nightly though.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apulse
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apulse-git

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2018-07-09 12:59:09)

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,306

Re: firefox nightly without pulseaudio

For apulse, you might have to allow some paths and syscalls in the sandbox whitelist (/dev/snd/ and syscall 16: ioctl)
https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse#acces … onnect_pcm

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