[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[jjgaris]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:00:18PM +0100, Carlchristian Eckert wrote:
> 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.
> 

I was just experimenting with that and while the warning message disappered when run with apulsse, the sound does not 
work unfortunately.

> 
> 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.