https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190882 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190882#c15 --- Comment #15 from Joel Miller <jm-hotmail@hotmail.com> --- Your queries prompted me to delve deeper into this issue, enabling me to determine what I believe is the cause of the missing audio. As you noted in Comment 7, pulseaudio is now required for web browsers. Based on my experience, this had no impact on openSuSE prior to Leap 15.3 (see the response in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1209469). Because I frequently engage in administrative tasks, I have found it more productive to log in as root rather than as a user, notwithstanding the security concerns. In its standard configuration, pulseaudio runs only in user sessions, not in ���system��� mode (i.e., login as root). (See https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Syst... and disfavor of system-wide implementation of pulseaudio: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/What...). While web browser sound does not work in a root session on a 15.3 platform because pulseaudio is not running, it functions properly in a user session. I ran the alsa-info script in a user session on machine #9 (running Leap 15.3) ��� the report states that pulseaudio is running (see the alsa-info.sh report 10-02-21 attachment in comment 14 above). Further, the user session report���s ALSA/HDA dmesg section is blank ��� i.e., no issues. And I confirmed that Firefox sound works in 15.3 user sessions on four different machines (two Asus-motherboard desktops, an ACER all-in-one, and a 2019 Dell laptop). I looked briefly at using apulse in lieu of pulseaudio, but the comment regarding Firefox in a GitHub description gives me pause (see https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse; scroll down to ���Firefox 58, etc.��� under ���Known Issues���). Pipewire may also fail to deliver sound from Firefox. Since pulseaudio works well in a user session, I see no reason to seek an alternative at this time. Please let me have your comments. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.