On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:00:12PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > 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
Building firefox takes hours making this not really an option for many users. Arch has deviated before from the upstream default, I see no reason why we should follow upstream by restricting the choice of the user.
