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Author: KatolaZ
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Subject: Re: [DNG] FF pulseaudio hard dependency is here
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 11:59:17AM -0600, golinux@??? wrote:
> On 2017-03-08 11:48, J. Fahrner wrote:
> >Am 08.03.2017 um 18:33 schrieb golinux@???:
> >
> >>
> >>"From Firefox 52 onwards, pulseaudio is a hard requirement for sound
> >>on linux. Alsa is unsupported and alsa code will be removed in Firefox
> >>54." (from - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c ... 47056#c178 )
> >
> >Pulseaudio? Not with me. :-(
> >_______________________________________________
> >
>
> Me either and many others on this list - there have been several pulseaudio
> threads on dng over the years. But that is not the point. Unless FF 52
> onward is recompiled with the alsa switch enabled, it will be unusable for
> most of us. So this is a heads up that someone will have to step forward to
> do this if it is not worked out upstream. Care to take that on?
>


It actually seems much worse than that. The thread above says that
ALSA support will be removed from Firefox by Mozilla itself, not by
Debian maintainers:

https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Firefox/No-ALSA-support-after-upgrade-to-52/td-p/1372444

So there will not be any switch in FF 54 to enable ALSA, since there
will not be any ALSA code in there...

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KatolaZ

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