no sound in iceweasel after upgrade

[rayandrews]

I hadn't upgraded for a few months, but did so yesterday and now iceweasel has no sound. Palemoon sound is still fine, mplayer sound is still fine. I upgraded Flash to '31' but that didn't help. Mozilla's help forum wants me to dump this problem onto you guys, so that's what I'm doing

[GarryRicketson]

Let me guess, are you using Debian 6 , or 7 ?
https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel

Firefox resumes distribution in Debian

As documented at the article The end of the Iceweasel Age, Firefox is now in Debian again with the official name and branding.

At Mozilla's request (see 815006), Debian now contains Mozilla “Firefox ESR” (Extended Support Release) as the firefox-esr package. Normal Debian support policies, including patches for bug fixes, apply to the package.

How to install Iceweasel (Firefox)

In Debian Stretch and later, the package iceweasel is a transitional package which installs the firefox-esr package.

<!> As of 9th of June, 2016 the package Firefox-ESR replaces Iceweasel, and is in Wheezy and Jessie security repositories.

In Debian earlier than Stretch, the iceweasel package is a transitional package for Firefox-ESR as described above. It can be installed from the Debian repositories with.

[rayandrews]

Nope, Debian version is 9. I have commands 'iceweasel' and 'firefox' both active, but they seem to be exactly the same program in practice. apt-get reports firefox-esr not installed but that does seem incorrect. Whatever it's called how can I get my sound back?

[arzgi]

How would souńd work in program, if program is not installed? To be serious, there was FF update last week, with has caused lot of buzz here. Extensions of previous version do not work anymore, but Debian had no choice, because Mozilla stopped supporting FF 52.

If sound works in other browsers, I would first install the new firefox-esr package.

As root:

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apt install firefox-esr

Test then, if sound still does not work, report.

[debiman]

newer firefox versions use pulseaudio.
palemoon uses plain alsa.

do you use pulseaudio?
if not you need to start firefox with apulse.

[rayandrews]

newer firefox versions use pulseaudio.
palemoon uses plain alsa.

do you use pulseaudio?
if not you need to start firefox with apulse.

I have the latest '60.2' installed. '62.0-1' from 'sid' will not install due to dependency problems. I have no idea if I use pulseaudio, I think I never did get it to work, I suspect I'm still alsa. I don't know what you mean 'start firefox with apulse'.

firefox apulse
firefox --apulse

don't work and

> apulse
command not found

So what/how do I use apulse?

[rayandrews]

uninstalled everything related, and reinstalled firefox 62.0, but still no sound.

[sunrat]

apulse is only available for testing and unstable. Firefox needs Pulse for sound. You're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[golinux]

Using apulse in Devuan. Would probably work in Debian too.

[sunrat]

Using apulse in Devuan. Would probably work in Debian too.

Where does apulse come from in Devuan? It's not in Stretch repo.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=apulse

[Head_on_a_Stick]

apulse is only available for testing and unstable

stevepusser's packaged it up for stretch, IIRC.

EDIT: also, I seem to remember the buster .deb installing just fine in my stretch system but I might be imagining that

[golinux]

Using apulse in Devuan. Would probably work in Debian too.

Where does apulse come from in Devuan? It's not in Stretch repo.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=apulse

We have a couple of different versions. Don't know if all of them have been cleaned up yet. The one for ASCII is for sure. Nothing wrong with stevepusser's of course.
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/d1pk ... elease=any

[sunrat]

I hated PulseAudio when it first appeared and tried to avoid it. Lately they've fixed most of the early bugs and added features. Also, after learning more about how to use it, I have come to appreciate some of it's features like simple selection of sound card when multiple ones are present, ability to tweak internal bit and sample rates, and running plugins.
Now I'm happy just to use it if it's there.