On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:27:17 +0300 Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > I should note that that version of FF from mozilla.org does not work without pulseaudio, so it may be a dowmstream mageia patch. > 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 http://www.shlomifish.org/ Apple Inc. is Evil - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/ Larry Wall is lazy, impatient and full of hubris. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Larry-Wall/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list