sans-pulseaudio Firefox? was: a strange thing

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Hi!

I read most of the discussion. But I live, and intend to live, without
pulseaudio, so some parts of the discussion are not of much interest to
me.

Pure alsa only. I dislike pulse. Actually... how do I put it? I do not
believe it is easy to control a system with packages like systemd, dbus,
pulseaudio, policykit from exploits that those poetterware programs do
not properly defend from, if not worse.

That is my opinion, I don't expect everybody to agree at all. Just
saying I do trust ALSA, but not pulse...

Relatively recently I learned of the move away from Alsa in Mozilla
Firefox, which I use:
Require PulseAudio on Linux
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056
which was a disappointment.

That really means that I can't open, say a Youtube/Vimeo/some-other
video, in Firefox if I don't install its pulseaudio dependency, which I
don't want to do.

My capabilities and time are limited, else I would have looked into what
they say in that link:
"build your own Firefox with ALSA enabled" 
and went for building Firefox on my own...

I'm looking for a shortcut to having sound in Firefox. See more below...


On 161114-16:49+0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:37:28 +0100, John P. Hartmann wrote:
> >Other applications may need pulse audio to produce sound altogether.
...
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:37:28 +0100
> From: "John P. Hartmann"
> To: Ralf Mardorf
> Subject: Re:  a strange thing
...
> On my Ubuntu 14.4, the control panel applet for sound contains nothing 
> unless pulseaudio is running.  I also discovered that firefox needs the 
> proper card configured in the applet, but once that is done, pulse
> audio is not needed to run.
> 
I wonder if that is true (in the sense that pulseaudio not running at
all, not even its "daemon"), because Mozilla devs went for the
pulseaudio dependency, as in the link furthe above that I gave, or do I
misunderstand something in that paragraph above...

But that forwarded email was the sole email that contained the string
firefox in some 6 months worth of emails of my alsa-users
subscription...

Is there anywhere to be found, some not too complex
tip/tutorial/something ... where to read/follow/do ... and get me a
Firefox that does not need pulseaudio?

So I can have audio when I watch videos from the web in Firefox.

My machine is Gentoo AMD64.

If I had more time, I would dedicate it to this, but sadly I do not
have much time...

Regards!
-- 
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

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