Firefox 52.0

Posted Mar 15, 2017 16:21 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Firefox 52.0 by ajmacleod
Parent article: Firefox 52.0

PulseAudio is part of virtually all mainstream Linux distributions and by now it does tend to work pretty well. A dependency on Pulseaudio is unlikely to hurt the popularity of Firefox on Linux in any significant way simply because nearly every potential Firefox user runs PulseAudio already, possibly without even really noticing because it just does what it is supposed to do.

Presumably people like you who prefer ALSA without PulseAudio could band together and recompile Firefox such that it doesn't use PulseAudio (it's a compile-time switch). It is a bit of a hassle but at least you would be scratching your own itch. IMHO, insisting that everyone else ought to forego PulseAudio-by-default in Firefox just because you personally don't happen to like it is much more of an imposition.