Enable JACK support in firefox
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
With the latest upgrade of Firefox, sound has broken again on non PulseAudio systems. Firefox has stopped support ALSA only systems, but have got some support for JACK. Since PA introduces trouble on systems where JACK is used, it is needed to make all audio applications work in some way, without PulseAudio. One reliable way of doing it has been to use the ALSA loop-back device, and to feed the output from that device to other JACK clients. Now, this option has been removed. To get things working again, I suggest one of the following options (depending on release):
1. (Probably Xenial only) Downgrade to Firefox ESR *and* force-enable ALSA in that build. I believe they disabled it before the ESR, but the ESR maintains the option.
2. (Releases after Xenial, and possibly also Xenial, if (1) is not considered as an option) Enable JACK support when compiling Firefox, and have pulsuudio|jackd as a requirement for Firefox
I believe that (1) is the most conservative option, but it is only a solution for LTS releases. I think (2) is the way to go for the future.
| Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.