[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[Carlchristian Eckert]

As a workaround, have you tried using apulse? It is a pulseaudio 
emulation for ALSA. Some time ago, I used it successfully to run Skype 
(which also depends on pulseaudio) without having pulseaudio installed.


Am 07.03.2017 um 10:49 schrieb SanskritFritz via arch-general:
> 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.