Subject: bug#480: Firefox - no sound

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 10:17:19 +0100

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Michaela,

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 06:33:50PM -0500, Michaela Merz wrote:
>    Package: Firefox (direct download)
>    Version: 76-0-1 (64bit)
>
>    No sound from Firefox if downloaded from web-site. Sound in installed
>    package firefox, version firefox-esr, 68.8.0esr-1 works fine. Sound
>    from Google-Chrome (downloaded from Google also works fine). If I start
>    pulseaudio manually from terminal, sound works in downloaded Firefox.

I suspect this is that you need to enable pulseaudio autospawn as documented in
the Release Notes[1].

Please confirm if that resolves your issue.

Thanks

Mark

[1]  http://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/Release_notes.txt