Firefox 53 (in Sid) requires Pulse Audio for sound
Posted: 2016-10-01 20:22
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments ... x_nightly/
Haven't seen this around. In short, the Firefox dev team have problems with ALSA so the plan is to ditch the ALSA support and make Firefox require Pulse Audio in the future. They will leave the ALSA code in there but it will be unsupported and to use it you'll have to compile it yourself.
My track record with Pulse Audio hasn't been very good so I'd prefer to leave it out. Anyone know what the build time might be on a core 2 quad with 8GB ram? Or if Pale Moon or similar browser are planning to keep the ALSA support?
For those who can't/want to compile the source themselves you can use apule to emulate pulseaudio under alsa. It's in active development again.
Edit: Changed subject and added link to apulse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments ... x_nightly/
Haven't seen this around. In short, the Firefox dev team have problems with ALSA so the plan is to ditch the ALSA support and make Firefox require Pulse Audio in the future. They will leave the ALSA code in there but it will be unsupported and to use it you'll have to compile it yourself.
My track record with Pulse Audio hasn't been very good so I'd prefer to leave it out. Anyone know what the build time might be on a core 2 quad with 8GB ram? Or if Pale Moon or similar browser are planning to keep the ALSA support?
For those who can't/want to compile the source themselves you can use apule to emulate pulseaudio under alsa. It's in active development again.
Edit: Changed subject and added link to apulse.