Golinux wrote: > This is a follow up to this old thread: > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20161002.124357.7c39d049.en.html > > According to this post on FDN - > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=638632#p638632 - the hard > pulseaudio requirement has now been implemented: > > "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 ) > > So heads up that Devuan might need recompile FF for alsa if Debian does not. > Of course, the blowback for going down this road could yet change Mozilla's > mind. Yeah, right . . . > > Or maybe another viable alternative will miraculously appear . . .
apulse has been mentioned here before. I haven't tested it much, but the GoboLinux developers have found it good enough to include in their latest build, announcing # Inclusion of APulse 0.1.9 as a replacement for PulseAudio (required by Firefox 52.0) https://github.com/gobolinux/LiveCD/releases/download/016.01_beta/GoboLinux-016.01-beta-x86_64.iso -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
