On 07/03/17 18:29, jjgaris via arch-general wrote: > Since the update to firefox 52 the audio support has been broken. > This seems to be because pulse audio is now a dependency by default in firefox. > However firefox can still be build with ALSA support. > > Without getting into any dicussion about issues about pulseaudio itself, I believe it should be possible to use firefox on arch without being forces to use pulse > audio. I am certainly not the only one to have banned this package from my boxes. And having more choices is certainly a good thing. > > Not sure this is the right place but I would like to ask to change back to the old defaults (ALSA). > With the old defaults, the user can choose to use pulse audio (or JACK) or stay with plain ALSA support. > Upstream changed to pulseaudio by default. Arch follows upstream You can compile firefox yourself to set it being alsa only. A
