Re: No sound with latest firefox under current

[Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Dave Tyson wrote:
> Just been rebuilding packages on an amd64 system running current. Sound 
> working OK in KDE, mplayer etc. No pulseaudio installed deliberately!

That's awesome. Full Stop.

> Installed firefox 50.1.0 and tried youtube, but no sound. Fiddled around 
> but couldn't find any knobs to twiddle.

Figures. One would hope they'd realize that it's not the One-True-Sound 
daemon and that valid working (and far superior, IMO) alternatives are 
totally out there.

> PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+= -pulseaudio +oss
> PKG_OPTIONS.firefox+= oss

One would think that these options alone would be enough to do it. One has 
to wonder if they've finally taken the plunge.

> Anyone else seeing this problem?

I haven't been brave enough to try 50.1.0 yet. Sounds like it could be an 
issue.

-Swift