Regression: Can not select front camera in firefox-esr
Script for selection default camera for Firefox was removed.
How can be front facing camera selected now in firefox-esr?
Observed Behavior
After phone reboot, firefox-esr can successfully use phone rear facing camera. E.g. you can do this on website webcamtests.com. Or you can use meet.google.com, but first you need to change user agent string from Android to Linux to be successful with google meet.
Camera working in firefox-esr is one shot. If you close or reload camera-using-website it is not possible to use camera in firefox-esr again. Restarting firefox won't help and you need to reboot whole phone to have webcamera working again.
Also webcamera won't work in firefox-esr if you use megapixels application first.
Only one web camera is detected by the firefox-esr and it is the rear facing camera. There is no way how to select front facing camera.
There used to be script to select default camera for firefox, but this script was removed.
Expected Behavior
Both cameras are detected in firefox-esr or some camera switcher is provided.
Observed Behavior
It is not possible to use front facing camera from firefox-esr.
Specific area or package affected
firefox-esr 91.8.0esr-1
How reproducible is the bug?
Always
Steps to reproduce the bug
- reboot
- run firefox-esr
- navigate to webcamtests.com
- click test my cam
What device are you using?
pinephone 3GB RAM 32GB flash
Which mobian repository are you using?
sources.list: debian bookworm main extrepo_mobian.sources: repo.mobian.org bookworm main non-free
How did you get your Mobian Image?
Solutions you have tried
Also if I download the script and install required package it won't switch to front camera as intended. It has the same effect as running megapixels application first - after the script was invoked, camera never works in firefox-esr.
I was not successful with front facing camera in any other browser I tried. (epiphany, chromium) no camera works (firefox from unstable) Only rear facing camera works