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How can I get sound without installing pulse-audio?

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Ambercroft
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Installing pulse audio destroyed any control of audio on one system (FF57). I will not install it on any others but Firefox wants it installed for audio. How can I by pass this requirement?

Firefox is the only program that sound does not work.

Installing pulse audio destroyed any control of audio on one system (FF57). I will not install it on any others but Firefox wants it installed for audio. How can I by pass this requirement? Firefox is the only program that sound does not work.

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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.

Bug 1247056 - Require PulseAudio to play sound on Linux

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/51.0/system-requirements/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/52.0/system-requirements/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/58.0.2/system-requirements/

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James
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Gekose oplossing

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.

Bug 1247056 - Require PulseAudio to play sound on Linux

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/51.0/system-requirements/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/52.0/system-requirements/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/58.0.2/system-requirements/