Fox 2026-06-05: "speaker on firefox chrome was hard restarted and
cannot hear host" / "host is working phone listeners hear host, speaker
does not see hosts mic open or waveform."
Root cause: desktop auto-rejoin reaches joinSpace() without a click,
so primeAudioOnGesture() never fires. Chrome (Fedora especially)
leaves audioCtx suspended until a real user gesture, and the
fire-and-forget audioCtx.resume() inside attachAudioStreamViaWorklet
silently fails outside one. Worklet reports "started" but the
destination renders nothing, the meter analyser pulls no samples →
no audio, no waveform, no mic-open indicator (the indicator IS the
waveform).
Pre-zero-click-auto-rejoin, the manual entry button always primed
audio; the regression arrived with that convenience. Now: install a
document-wide one-shot click/keydown/touchstart listener that calls
primeAudioOnGesture() on first interaction anywhere. Zero-click
auto-rejoin convenience preserved — any later page click engages
audio for the rest of the session.
Listener self-unregisters after firing so we don't repeatedly spawn
silent oscillators. Idempotent — primeAudioOnGesture's audioCtx
check makes re-runs safe.
Russell Ballestrini
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