Intent to prototype: Audio Session API

43 views
Skip to first unread message

Alastor Wu

unread,
Jul 29, 2026, 3:31:37 PM (2 days ago) Jul 29
to dev-pl...@mozilla.org
Summary:
The Audio Session API lets web apps declare their audio intent and observe the system audio state.

Instead of relying on browser guesses, pages can specify whether they're playing media, a notification, or a call, and receive events when audio is interrupted, deactivated, or resumed. This makes web audio behave more like native apps across platforms. 

Bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2055710 (enable pref on Nightly)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830428 (meta)
Preference
dom.audio_session.enabled

Platform coverage: All

Other browsers:  
https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_audiosession  
Chromium: Not supported 
Safari: Supported


Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages