How can I get sound without installing pulse-audio?
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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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/