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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2016 07:51:26 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Christian Baer <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox still without sound
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1605250749470.91879@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1875948.s628qAcR8p@falbala>
References:  <1875948.s628qAcR8p@falbala>

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On Wed, 25 May 2016, Christian Baer wrote:

> Hey everyone!
>
> I just updated Firefox to the current 46.0.1 and I am still not getting any
> sound out of it (just tested youtube). With the update several other packages
> were updated too (including alsa), so it seems as if there has been some
> progress in terms of sound.
>
> Using $SEARCHENGINE I could quickly see, that Firefox without sound after an
> update under FreeBSD is a (well) known issue. Strangely enough there does not
> really seem to be a solution out there that is easy to implement or put into
> the ports/packages.
>
> What's going on there? Or have I just missed the memo about Firefox and the
> sound output?

It's working here on 10-stable.  I have always enabled the ALSA option 
and disabled PULSEAUDIO, which might have something to do with it.



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