Okay, so I'm running a highly customized hard drive install of Knoppix 8.1 running in Adriane mode with my sources.list stripped down to Debian Unstable Main. Firefox-esr 61 hit Debian Unstable recently, and as I feared, the no-ALSA bug that has plagued mainline Firefox since Firefox 53 and has been deemed won'tfix since it was originally reported is now infesting Firefox-ESR. I enabled Debian Testing long enough to downgrade to the latest ESR 52.x and spoofed my ESR version in /var/lib/dpkg/status to prevent accidentally upgrading to silentfox again, but this isn't a viable long-term solution, and sadly, my hopes for a simple fix coming along while the bug affected only mainline Firefox seem to have been in vain. I don't want to install PulseAudio because its a lot of bloat to restore sound to one program when sound is otherwise working fine, Chromium nad its dependencies take up even more space than Firefox plus Pulse, and configuring Firefox to use apulse, best I can tell, is more complicated than other about:config tweaks I've done, plus I have no clue how to change the scripts that Adriane uses to launch a minimal x-session with Firefox+Orca to invoke apulse firefox instead of firefox, and my attempts to write my own script to launch a minimalist x-session for Firefox have been unsuccessful. So, could anyone point me towards a solution in any of the following veins?: -A third-party apt repository that maintains builds of the latest Firefox/Firefox-ESR built with ALSA support. -A guide on how to compile the latest Firefox/Firefox-ESR with ALSA support myself. -Anything that streamlines configuring Firefox to use apulse and how to alias firefox to apulse firefox or make Adriane-x invoke apulse firefox. -An alternative graphical web browser that doesn't make Firefox look small and light by comparison and preferably that's easy to migrate cookies, bookmarks and saved passwords too. -A small, light command-line client for YouTube(as long as I can listen to YouTube, I'm fine with Firefox being unable to play sound). -Something else I haven't considered. Also, Upgrading and then downgrading Firefox-ESR lead to the issue were closing one tab has a good chance of crashing all my other tabs. To my knowledge, the only gauranteed fix for this is to create a new profile, but naturally, I want to keep all my settings. Last time this happened, I created a new profile and then copied places.sqlite, cookies.sqlite, and my extensions folder over from the old profile, which solved the crashing, but meant redoing my perfences, about:config tweaks, NoScript Settings, and saved passwords from scratch. This time, I also copied over my key4.db, logins.json, and perfs.js from the old profile, which also brought over passwords, prefs, about:config tweaks, and NoScript settings, but reintroduced the crashing. Any solution to the crashes without having to redo some of my settings manually? _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list