Re: Firefox and stuttering USB audio

THANK YOU!! This seems to have solved the issue. Thankfully I had
already set
/tmp to be an in-memory filesystem so this will do wonders. I'm assuming
you haven't had any issues with the firefox cache being blown away every
reboot? Doesn't really matter anyway, I prefer good audio over firefox
having
a clean cache every time. Now I can listen to my music while I work and not
have to cringe ;)

On 8/7/22 14:44, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Courtney, I will try to suggest something.
>
> First, I was having problems in the past with Firefox. I use to let
> mpv play in the background ( a stream of internet radio) and the sound
> has stuttering and pauses whenever Firefox loaded some pages. I was
> told to use sndio for mpv as an option with ao=sndio in the mpv.conf.
> I did this and the problem was gone.
>
> Next, you could try something just to check. It is a shoot in the
> dark, but I use it for something else.
> I have an old computer, and the browsing was very slow. The disk (
> mechanical) was spinning like hell whenever a page was loaded, both
> Firefox and Chromium. Looking on internet, I found that browsers are
> using caching on the disk a lot. I see you are using SSD, but here it
> is anyway;
>
> Do a backup:
> # cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.install
>
> Change the entry for the /tmp partition to look like this:
> swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=1g 0 0
>
> Reboot in single user mode, using -s at boot prompt and do this on the shell:
> # mount -uw /
> #chmod 1777 /tmp
> # reboot
>
> Let it boot normally and issue this inside a terminal:
> $ XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp firefox
>
> Then do your job with sound and check for stuttering. If it is fine
> now, use it like this. If not, just reverse the fstab backup and try
> something else. Please report here, too :).
>