Hi,

I don't blame you for being annoyed, it definitely was Firefox that pulled out the rug when (a) they abandoned ALSA for PulseAudio in version 52 and now (b) Firefox just grabs the Audio interface without bothering to get on board with any already running PulseAudio JACK sink (and then has to be explicitly told it has to use it with pavucontrol). It's nice that Arch custom packages it with extra backends but that is no help to Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives. Mozilla should simply ship with all backends enabled.

For any others reading there is more explanation here:

http://bandshed.net/forum/index.php?topic=3937.0
and page 86, 87 here:

http://www.bandshed.net/pdf/AVL2018UserManual.pdf

Yes some of the info is AV Linux specific but this generally works for all Debian/Ubuntu distros..

----- Original Message -----
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"jonetsu" <jonetsu@teksavvy.com>

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Sent:
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:21:05 -0400
Subject:
Re: [LAU] It's 2018 and ...

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 23:17:00 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> The official Arch Linux package was build with alsa and jack support
> enabled.
>
> "[snip]
> pkgname=firefox
> pkgver=59.0.2
> [snip]
> ac_add_options --enable-alsa
> ac_add_options --enable-jack
> [snip]" -

This would mean in turn that it's up to the post install script in the
firefox Ubuntu/Mint deb package to take care of an existing modification
of the audio assignment and not to simply overwrite it with an assume
default.
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