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Hi! |
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Possibly bad news (for pure ALSA users)! Read the new comment at: |
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Require PulseAudio to play sound on Linux |
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056#c178 |
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BTW, lots of comments are disallowed as "advocacy". Many users |
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complained. I took time and did some investigation: |
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( in that other thread... details best found starting from maybe this |
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email: |
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Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No... |
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https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=147953595617288&w=2 |
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and later |
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) |
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, and fixed audio in my Gentoo, thanks also to help by developers here |
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and one (contributing) at ALSA ML. |
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I still have audio in my Firefox, and my ebuilds have for years now |
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contained: "-pulseaudio": |
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www-client/firefox-50.0.2 |
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such as when playing Vimeo/Youtube/any other, in HTML, I have both video |
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and audio. |
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But as you can see, they see to insist to disable pure ALSA, and impose |
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on everyone using Firefox, to install pusleaudio if they want to view |
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videos in Firefox, and be able to listen to the sound of those video. |
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The title of that bug now carries: |
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Target Milestone: mozilla52 |
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so it's not immediate (but pls note that it was claimed otherwise |
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previously, previous target was earliear, IIUC). |
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In my stron opinion, and opinions are allowed in Gentoo, just not |
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imposing your opinion onto others (and that I am not doing, feel free |
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to disagree!), pulseadio is spyware, read more here: |
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Re: [Alsa-user] sans-pulseaudio Firefox? was: a strange thing |
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https://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@×××××××××××××××××.net/msg31928.html |
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I'll try and ask on Alsa-user whether this decision makes a real threat |
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to remain without audio for all users who want to stick with pure ALSA |
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(I will never install pulseaudio). |
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If some Gentoo developers, and there usually are a few, are reading here, is |
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this a serious possibility that -pulseaudio useflag users will remain |
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with silent Firefox, or is this just noise on the part of some |
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...particularly inclined Mozilla devs with some decision power? |
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(I already asked such a question: |
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Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No... |
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https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=148054527030206&w=2 |
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but didn't get a reply, but, apparently, so far the "pulseaudio required" |
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was bogus for the previous target which was Firefox46 IIUC, or?) |
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Thanks for the kind consideration! |
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Miroslav Rovis |
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Zagreb, Croatia |
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http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr |
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