[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

[Óscar García Amor]

And make a package for firefox-esr[1]? It could maintain the ALSA support
and plugins support.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

2017-03-07 16:14 GMT+01:00 jjgaris via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org>:

> 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.
>



-- 
Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me