[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[Allan McRae]

On 07/03/17 18:29, jjgaris via arch-general wrote:
> Since the update to firefox 52 the audio support has been broken.
> This seems to be because pulse audio is now a dependency by default in firefox.
> However firefox can still be build with ALSA support.
> 
> Without getting into any dicussion about issues about pulseaudio itself, I believe it should be possible to use firefox on arch without being forces to use pulse 
> audio. I am certainly not the only one to have banned this package from my boxes. And having more choices is certainly a good thing.
> 
> Not sure this is the right place but I would like to ask to change back to the old defaults (ALSA). 
> With the old defaults, the user can choose to use pulse audio (or JACK) or stay with plain ALSA support.
>

Upstream changed to pulseaudio by default. Arch follows upstream

You can compile firefox yourself to set it being alsa only.

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