Hi Jeffery, On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:50:50 +0000 Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, so I recently upgraded my main machine to Knoppix 8. Initially, > I was glad that a long standing bug that causes Orca to go silent > whenever I open a file dialog box in firefox, if not outright crash > something hard enough to force me back to text-mode had been fixed, > but then I realized the default version of Firefox in Knoppix 8 is > Firefox 52, aka, the version that dropped ALSA support. > > At first, I thought, no big deal, I'll just switch to Firefox ESR and > get my ability to listen to YouTube videos back, but apparently, the > file dialog is still silent in Firefox ESR, and after months of not > being able to save pages or upload files, I don't relish the idea of > giving it up again now that it works again. > > I could just switch between the two versions as needed, but that's not > exactly convient, so I decided to bite the bullet and Install > pulseaudio, but I'm still without audio when YouTube videos play. > Everything is still talking properly both in the console and the GUI, > and I can still play local media from the terminal, but Firefox itself > remains silent. > > So, does anyone know how to get Firefox working with Pulseaudio, how > to get Orca to read file dialogs in Firefox-ESR, know of a Firefox > extension that re-adds ALSA support, or of a decent command-line > client for listening to YouTube? > 1. firefox-52.3.0-2.mga7 on Mageia v7 x86-64 works well enough without pulseaudio - I hear sound well here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxmWBHCGn4 (just checked). Note that I am not sight-impaired or anything. 2. I use https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ to download videos from youtube and other sites from the command line, and it works well. Regards, Shlomi -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list