How to enable th microphone in Firefox

hsw

I have been trying to get Firefox to access the microphone on FreeBSD-12-RELEASE but have not found out how to configure it. I have managed to configure sound system so microphone is on PCM0 (/dev/dsp0) on boot and it is OK in Audacity so headset mic/earphones are both on /dev/dsp0. Headset is OK in Firefox, the test pages ask for microphone permission but do not detect any input.

JuvenalUrbino

As of FF60, WebRTC works only by using pulseaudio as midi player backend (no alsa, jack or sndio support unfortunately), so make sure firefox is actually looking for input through pulseaudio by checking out about:support page (you can change backend in about:config); also see the WebRTC Troubleshooter

hsw

thanks I will attempt to setup pulseaudio

JuvenalUrbino

hsw fancy out a idealistic world where Firefox developers care about serious/old users, stay true to their Netscape legacy (which implies supporting several platforms and sound servers), and include native WebRTC support for SNDIO. The stark Reality,instead, is that they removed support for OSS/OSSv4 and ALSA in 52+ release, for RSS2/Atom in 60+ and stopped supporting Gopher and NNTP long ago.

So I use Seamonkey with OSS backend, and have all I need on it (a modern web browser, a FTP browser, a RSS feed reader, a Usenet reader, a Mail client, an address book, a HTML editor: the awesome SeaMonkey Composer) within less code bloat and 1/2-2/3 RAM requiements.

hsw

It does work but sound output is stuttering at times rebooting to do further tests...
ok so far after a reboot.

Mic is detected on some test sites, but not all so don't really know why...

it was Ublock turn off to use; on that site, probably uses some JS lib from one of the blocked sites

hsw

The main reason I use FireFox is the tree-style tab extension as I have several hundred tabs open. An this gives me a nice tabar on the left.

Seamonkey does not work for me as it is missing its font - i.e. all menus an preferences are just empty
even LANG=C seamonkey -preferences has no text, only has a few checkboxes

JuvenalUrbino

hsw

hsw Seamonkey does not work for me as it is missing its font - i.e. all menus an preferences are just empty
even LANG=C seamonkey -preferences has no text, only has a few checkboxes

That's really strange though, I use and have used it on every opensource *nix OS you could think about (writing this comment on Seamonkey) and never experienced such an issue. I wonder what's gone wrong in your case

hsw

Just listening toBSD Now 287 and in the review of Project Trident, a browser called falkon is mentioned, seems to pull a lot of kf5- ports (I suppose this is relaetd to KDE). Has anyone tried this?

Falkon is the former QupZilla.
To everyone its own, but I don't really like KDE or anything Qt. So, no, I haven't tried it. Currently, and as always, running Firefox on Linux, but on my NetBSD laptop I'm running Midori-7.0.

hsw

I had wondered where qupzilla had gone, thanks pin

JuvenalUrbino

hsw the reality is that while Qupzilla, as a Qt4 + QtWebKit browser, used to have its own unique raison d'être, the 'feather yet functional browser', fitting a specific use case and competing with WebkitGTK browsers like Vimb and Midori, Falkon, with Qt5+QtWebEngine is only by an overlookable margin more lightweight than Chromium, and it's debatable whether it's less resource-hungry than FF Quantum. That's the same paradox affecting other pseudo-lightweight QtWebEngine browsers like Qutebrowser and Otter