Here is a long thread on reddit where many other people address their concerns about the dropping of ALSA support: All I can say is, that from my past experience, it was a lot of trouble getting PulseAudio to work right.
Whether PulseAudio is the devil or not, I don't know. This helps me greatly in finding what I want, and as far as I know, these "extras" of bookmarks are not transferred to other non-mozilla browsers. Regarding bookmarks, I have hundreds, and all of them tagged, some of them commented on. Switching to a non-mozilla browser means that I would have to find replacements for all of those, testing whether they work as well as they did on Firefox etc. It's also about a number of add-ons that I use. Bookmarks (and most etceteras) can quite readily be exported/imported/converted between nearly every browser out there. If this is the only reason you have to stay with Mozilla browsers, then you really have no reason to stay with Mozilla browsers. I simply started looking for an alternative Mozilla-based browser (so I could keep my bookmards etc.) Sorry for all the confusing questions, just trying to make sense of it all! the dropping of ALSA support in Firefox, is that likely to happen with Waterfox too, because it is mozilla based?
So how does this work? Is it because they both use the same mozilla profile, and once it is in use, it is locked?Īnother question I should ask. Neither do they both depend on mozilla-common.
I looked at the files list (pacman -Ql firefox, pacman -Ql waterfox-bin) to see if both Firefox and Waterfox install a mozilla binary (?), but that doesn't seem to be the case. Once installed, everything seemed to be back to normal, actually, other than the window title saying "Waterfox", everything looked as if I was running my previous Firefox installation. Instead of downgrading Firefox, I simply started looking for an alternative Mozilla-based browser (so I could keep my bookmards etc.), and found Waterfox ( waterfox-bin in AUR). Even though I usually got it to work, it just always seemed too complicated to setup.
I was so happy that I did not have to mess with additional complications, like PulseAudio etc. On my "daily" Linux system, I have only ALSA installed, and it works perfectly fine with everything else I use. Yesterday I upgraded to Firefox 52.0 and was disappointed to find out that they dropped ALSA support. OK, this post may be a bit confusing, but I will try to explain as best as I can: