Audio recording broken in Firefox on NetBSD?

oui

My mic used to work fine but after updating Firefox, my mic now only outputs incomprehensible noise. Same with different microphones and same on both desktop and laptop. Also tested to completely reinstall NetBSD but problem still persists.. Audio recording on NetBSD itself works fine using audiorecod, problem only seems to affect when trying to record through Firefox. I have made sure to allow the correct audio input when prompted for permission for Firefox to use the mic.

Am I the only one experiencing this?

nia

No, it's reproducible for me using https://webaudiodemos.appspot.com/AudioRecorder/index.html

Something is clearly wrong / mozilla broke something. Please send-pr the problem early next time so I can catch it before we're about to cut a stable release of pkgsrc. There's barely any time left.

nia

What was the last release of Firefox that worked for you? I'm trying to determine when the problem was introduced.

oui

nia I'm sorry I don't remember the exact version, I think I was using a version between 80-86 before updating to 91 where I discovered my mic wasn't working.

nia

I've filed a problem report to track my investigation. Let's move this to gnats / the mailing lists... http://gnats.netbsd.org/56587

oui

nia Thanks nia!

nia

Basically spent all day debugging this and no closer to catching the origin of where Mozilla introruced the regression. Months of my effort making microphones work nicely in firefox have gone down the toilet, use firefox78 as it's the last version that will work, I've reimported it to pkgsrc.