[LAU] Some disturbing news

[david]

On 06/02/2018 10:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 19:29:35 -1000, david wrote:
>> On 06/02/2018 06:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:52:05 -1000, David W. Jones wrote:
>>>> On June 2, 2018 2:32:13 PM HST, Paul Davis wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [snips]
>>>>   
>>>>> BTW, Firefox seems to have gone the same way as Skype.
>>>>>
>>>>> ​They still have a native ALSA backend and there's even a JACK one
>>>>> available.​
>>>>
>>>> Really? Where? The Firefox I have on Debian is exclusively Pulse.
>>>
>>> The Arch Linux firefox packages are build with
>>>
>>> ac_add_options --enable-alsa
>>> ac_add_options --enable-jack
>>>
>>> However, if Debian packages shouldn't be build with alsa and/or jack,
>>> you could install https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse to use alsa.
>>> Unless you need jack, it's not worse to waste much time building
>>> Firefox on your own, consider to use apulse.
>>
>> I tried that. Didn't work here. But I use JACK, not ALSA.
> 
> apulse works for alsa only,

Well, if I stop JACK (which uses ALSA as its backend), and try apulse, 
it does nothing.

Thanks for the advice re compiling FF.

I downloaded the tar.bz2 from Firefox and set that up under my /opt 
tree. I can run it. Any option/setting to make FF from Mozilla's site 
use ALSA or JACK?

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