tomas@tuxteam.de (2018-09-09): > Personally, I couldn't care less: I consider my browser's inability > to make sounds a welcome *feature*, so not having Pulse (which is my > default) just naturally takes care of that. Same for me. And apulse seems to work for me anyway. > Given the amount of passive-aggressive juice flowing there (in both > directions, mind you!), I guess it'll stay like that. > > Perhaps you could convince Mozilla if you're able to summon up > enough devel power to take care of an alternative back-end (e.g. > "naked" ALSA), but I guess it would have to be somewhat credible. Or they could have used one of the front-end libraries, maybe libao. Or chosen ALSA's libasound, because libasound can be routed to pulse transparently. Obviously this was a political choice. Expect Gnome's WM to be mandatory next. > Freedom sometimes sucks; the lack thereof always sucks :) Hear, hear. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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