[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski]

On 2017-03-07 10:26, jjgaris via arch-general 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.
> 

Convince upstream to bring Alsa back as default. That's pretty much EOT
from anyone involved into packaging in Arch.

BP

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