[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[Damjan Georgievski]

> Since the update to firefox 52 the audio support has been broken.

nope, it works fine.

alas, ALSA support in Firefox has become unmaintained …
this means if Arch reverts to ALSA it'll be shipping worse code just
for the few people that choose to not use Pulseaudio (for their own
reasons).

> 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.



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damjan