[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[jjgaris]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:00:12PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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.
> 
> A

Building firefox takes hours making this not really an option for many users.
Arch has deviated before from the upstream default, I see no reason why we should follow upstream by restricting the 
choice of the user.