I know Ubuntu, among others, used to ship Firefox without modules it defaulted into, so it would complain harmlessly and bring up an annoying pop-up-blocked style modal when the TTS module/engine was missing.
Oh so maybe they are just initialising the TTS by default, ready for those who need it for accessibility? That would make sense.
I'm on a Debian, so that ties in with what you mentioned.
It's easy to get rid of the error, I was more just curious. Thought maybe mainstream websites had started blasting speech at users as soon as they arrived.
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a lot of that may be TTS accessibility features.
I know Ubuntu, among others, used to ship Firefox without modules it defaulted into, so it would complain harmlessly and bring up an annoying pop-up-blocked style modal when the TTS module/engine was missing.
(they may still do this, but i'm not up to date.)
Oh so maybe they are just initialising the TTS by default, ready for those who need it for accessibility? That would make sense.
I'm on a Debian, so that ties in with what you mentioned.
It's easy to get rid of the error, I was more just curious. Thought maybe mainstream websites had started blasting speech at users as soon as they arrived.