On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:20:58AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 22:51:31 +0300 > Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> wrote: [...] > > If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA > > device at the same time on your computer. > > really? Here I can play back a video in firefox and play another video > from harddisk in vlc and the sound tracks are happily mixed by alsa (not > that it's an enjoyable experience, but it works :) Straight from the Horse's Mouth: "ALSA support was dropped starting Firefox 52.0 and later. Some Linux distros may have delayed this change with their own third-party Firefox packages to use ALSA until more recently. You could compile Firefox yourself with --disable-pulseaudio --enable-alsa Keep in mind that if you do this you will not get updates from Mozilla as it will be a third-party build." (see e.g. [1]). Checking what options your distro compiled it with is left as an exercise to the reader :-) Now don't expect your distro maintainer's to continue indefinitely maintaining your firefox's port in a non-standard configuration. This is significant work, so if you care about it, do step in. Cheers [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1209469 -- t
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