On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:59:13PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:42:11AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > > I had the same problem and found that starting up dbus and avahidaemon > > solved it. With older versions of Firefox, this wasn't necessary. > > I'd be interested to see if there are other solutions to this, since > > I'd rather not run dbus/avahi. > > Entirely agree. It's scary to do so much for a web browser. Can someone > confirm this hypothesis? > > If true, shouldn't it be a captured as a dependency?
I notice that those are dependencies, but only indirectly. The problem direct dependency is pulseaudio, which has dbus and avahi as its dependencies. I wonder if it's possible to build a recent Firefox using some other audio backend. It seems worthwhile, since pulseaudio is a real CPU hog and it might also eliminate the need for dbus/avahi. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman