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charles17
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| Good to know. So it's time for testing (next firefox release) with USE=pulseaudio enabled. |
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eccerr0r
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Ah, now that makes it clear, I thought there was some version that makes libpulse a hard dep due to bit rot.
What sucks is that it's the slow machines that I'd like to avoid pulseaudio but those are the ones that need to recompile firefox. Go figure. *sigh*
I transitioned pretty much all of my fast machines to pulseaudio as that was the easiest solution and so far, none of them have problems with sound.
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evoweiss
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Hi there,
| Anarchy wrote: | | If you sync and re-emerge firefox you will have working sound. We enabled firefox bpf sandbox which is what broke alsa. Once firefox-52.x is EOL we will not support anything othen pulse audio in both firefox and firefox-bin. |
I'll try doing this just now. Hopefully it'll work. I run an old system, so it takes a long time to emerge firefox.
As per pulseaudio becoming a hard dependency, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, but I won't be installing pulseaudio as my system is old and I doubt it will play well.
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Hu
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| Anarchy: are there plans to allow Firefox to build without pulseaudio for users who are willing to have no sound at all? I like my webpages silent, so I have no problem dropping sound support if it means avoiding pulseaudio. |
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evoweiss
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Hi all,
Sound is indeed working again after I synced and re-emerged firefox.
The only mystery left is why youtube has become so damn slow of late. I mean, it's barely usable. All other webpages don't present a problem.
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