Open ahanson opened 6 years ago
Isn't Pulseaudio installed by default on Xubuntu? I have no problems with sound in firefox 56 on 17.10.
Dunno about Xubuntu, but it sometimes doesn't appear on Kubuntu 14.04. Other times, it's present, but the /home/user/.config/pulse/ directory is owned by root for some reason. Next year, we're moving to Linux Mint, so maybe this won't be an issue there.
Ugh, Mint…
Firefox version 52 requires pulseaudio to play audio.
How to fix the issue:
Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get -y install pulseaudio pavucontrol
Then, check if your pulseaudio configuration directory is owned by your user. Type:ls -la ~/.config/ | grep pulse
Your output should look something like this (whereuser
is your username):drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Feb 4 2015 pulse
If you see this:drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 2015 pulse
Then you need to type this:sudo chown -R user:user ~/.config/pulse
and after that , sound should work in Firefox.It's easy to add pulseaudio and set the correct permissions for the config directory. The problem is that I don't know if this will break something else.