On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 13:37:36 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:24:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:13:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > I seriously doubt they would accept a patch to restore the ALSA > > features that they intentionally removed with the goal of not having > > to support multiple audio output backends. > > The discussion sounded as if they just hadn't the bandwidth to cope > with another backend: so a credible offer seems still out... > > > I don't use Pulse Audio either, and have no intention of doing so in > > the near future. If Firefox doesn't support ALSA, then I will not be > > listening to audio in Firefox. > > As I do... > > > I still have Google-Chrome installed, > > and I use that for the rare occasion when I want to watch/listen to a > > YouTube submission. > > Eeek :-) > > For me, it's youtube-dl and cclive. I'm fine with my browser not > being able to make noise. On the contrary, the less the browser > is capable of, the better... > > Including not mining cryptocurrency for other people :-)
Yes, I prefer to download any videos I actually want to play. I would also prefer not to have them play silently either. The recent thread "WTF does Firefox 58?" touched on this but wasn't very specific, with a reference to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections (lots of different features in here), but the referrer said they hadn't tried these methods anyway. Any ideas? (I'm assuming what plays is not flash, as I *think* I have no flash available to this particular system's browser.) Cheers, David.
