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Author: dev
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To: Rob van der Putten, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan, Firefox and Apulse


On 09/20/2017 04:47 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote:
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>> Anyone have it working on Devuan and Firefox 55.0.3 64bit ?
>
> How about FF and Jackd?
> I don't use Jack myself, but a lot people do.


IIRC Jack, ALSA and Pulseaudio are three completely different software
stacks. Firefox, as compiled from mozilla, will only work with
Pulseaudio. Their official reasoning[1] was:

"Make Pulse Audio a hard dependency on Linux so that we
reduce the problems and maintenance associated with
maintaining multiple audio backends."

Whatever rationale is behind that decision is beyond me.
I only know Firefox worked perfectly for me for over a decade
and now it does not. I guess I am switching to Chrome. Another
sad day for FOSS.

Many of my online classes do not allow downloading of the media
to view in Mplayer or VLC so I am really stuck.


[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056