[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[SanskritFritz]

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:26 AM, jjgaris via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Does a kind soul provide an alternative build of Firefox? I had to remove
pulse audio from my system due to a bug, while Alsa works just fine.