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As a heads up, Firefox 53, scheduled for release next month, will drop support on Linux editions for processors older than Pentium 4 and AMD Opteron...
This is at least the third, maybe the fourth, thread on the subject since Firefox-52 was released. As has been mentioned elsewhere, some distributions, such as openSUSE and Slackware, are enabling ALSA support in Firefox 52.
From Slackware's "-current" (development) branch 10 March 2017, change log,
Quote:
xap/mozilla-firefox-52.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled with --enable-alsa option. Without this, there is no fallback support for ALSA if PulseAudio is not present.
Last edited by cwizardone; 03-18-2017 at 05:19 PM.
it is the video in youtube that i am not getting and have not been getting in firefox for sometime now. so if I got no video what reason do I need sound?
As "we speak" there is a YouTube video with full sound running in another tab in Firefox-52.
but is it showing video too or just sound?
I got 52.0 64bit and still i am not getting video on youtube. I get this image with this stupid fancy little F in the middle of it and that is it.
Ok I just check it again and well I got sound but no video woo hoo!
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by BW-userx
that blows. Why is everyone getting video but me? Have not been sense back like ver 40x
The problem has to bee either with your hardware or setup. Do you do a plain vanila, FULL, installation of your operating system or do you modify the OS in some way?
The problem has to bee either with your hardware or setup. Do you do a plain vanila, FULL, installation of your operating system or do you modify the OS in some way?
ahhhh it is slackware current and it too is doing it on VOID link too. It stopped working when firefox got updated to what ver I do not remember and still does not work. Even off a fresh install of SLack as I just resently installed slack again and it still does not work. I even delete the old /home/userx/.mozilla/firefox and had it make a new one and still no video.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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I also use Slackware64-current and over the last few months have done several fresh installations, from scratch (new partitions and new equipment) and have not encountered any of the problems you have reported here or in the many other messages you have posted in other forums. Everything, networkmanager, audio and pulseaudio, video, Firefox, etc., work "out of the box" without having to do ANY adjustments. Your equipment must be very odd or you are just not doing the installation correctly or, perhaps, just perhaps, you think you know better and are making adjustments that only result in your problems. Over the 30 plus years I've been using personal computers I've found 90% of the problems, including my own, are between the chair and the keyboard.
Last edited by cwizardone; 03-18-2017 at 11:06 PM.
I suspect a configuration issue. User not in the video group, using an outdated version of flash, or you don't have the video codecs installed. You still needed flash for some youtube live streams, although I think most of that is html5-ish now, as long as you're on something newer than debian wheezy.
Dropped support on older hardware is getting rough. I have an old sempron system that I still use. It has a parallel port, and I have a tank of a printer that still uses that type of connection. At the moment it has debian jessie installed, but it only boots with a debian wheezy kernel. Fortunately I figured out networked printing so I don't have to try to open and print documents in 1GB or less of ram anymore. Plus the G's of updates needed after not booting said system for the six months between prints. I'm probably due for a fresh install on that machine, and now with networked printing I can stop installing the bloated document viewers.
Hi, everyone - Mike Hoye here, Mozilla's engineering community manager.
This is a reminder that Bugzilla is our professional working environment, not a place to vent your displeasure. Mozilla's engineers have a great deal of discretion about how and where to best spend their time, and long, vitriolic comment threads will not get bugs fixed faster, or at all.
If you have a contribution to make that can move this conversation forward - reliable metrics, patches or helpfully-framed alternatives, for example - please feel free to do so. Otherwise, I encourage you not to; if this escalates my next step will be locking this bug to privileged contributors only.
Feel free to email me directly if you'd like to discuss this directly.
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