-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 10:24:30AM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > Note: A reply in bugs failed. > > On 09/09/18 10:08, Marco Lucidi wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 21:41:11 +0200 Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> > > wrote: > > > Unfortunately AIUI upstream has stopped supporting ALSA, so we > are stuck > > > with pulseaudio for firefox. > > > > Is there any particular reason for pulseaudio not being listed in the > > dependencies? > > I mean, even if it's not a "core" dependency, I think it should be > > listed in rec or at least in sug. > > Apparently there alternatives to pulseaudio. See; > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=639534#p639534 > > Does anyone know why ALSA is no longer supported? Does Firefox run > in a chroot? How much work would it be to add ALSA support?
It seems to be intentional: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056 Personally, I couldn't care less: I consider my browser's inability to make sounds a welcome *feature*, so not having Pulse (which is my default) just naturally takes care of that. Given the amount of passive-aggressive juice flowing there (in both directions, mind you!), I guess it'll stay like that. Perhaps you could convince Mozilla if you're able to summon up enough devel power to take care of an alternative back-end (e.g. "naked" ALSA), but I guess it would have to be somewhat credible. Freedom sometimes sucks; the lack thereof always sucks :) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAluU3vEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY1uwCdEvBKgL2cXDm7Dms6fsV0AX8N +RAAn1i/fov9zJUfl2JtsrPoQElN23Xa =1EKS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
