On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:34:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > I hope I am believed when I say that firefox in unstable (67.0.1) has > > --enable-alsa in about:buildconfig. And sound works without pulseaudio. > > As does firefox-esr 60.6.3esr-1 in buster, it seems. I didn't know about > about:buildconfig before. Handy. Definitely. > I don't know the exact story, but I've heard pieces of it over the last > year or two. Apparently at one point upstream decided not to support > direct ALSA any more, but they left the code in place, just not enabled > in the default compile-time configuration. Debian's packages re-enabled > the option to turn on ALSA support. I was also told that, at some later > point, upstream actually removed the ALSA code from their source tree, > or was planning to do so. I don't know if Debian is patching the ALSA > code back in, or if the versions we have just haven't been neutered by > upstream yet. Now that would be something for someone to check with the package source. Cheers -- t
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