On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 09:37:44PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> As the release of firefox-66 approaches (due this coming week) I've
> been keeping an eye on the candidate versions. Mostly, I use
> pulseaudio - but until now been building the alsa version on one of
> my old machines, to check it still works.
>
> On that machine, build 3 built ok and generally worked - except that
> attempting to watch youtube would start to render the initial
> youtube page and then the tab would crash. Attempting to reload the
> tab would again crash. I killed firefox, updated qt and
> qtwebengine, then retried - same result.
>
> I've now built the pulse version (I have pulse installed, my only
> reason to try to use alsa was to test it) and on that youtube works
> fine. I conclude that using alsa instead of pulse with firefox-66
> might be disappointing.
>
Built the alsa version on another machine, there youtube doesn't
crash. No speakers on that box, so no idea if the sound is working
(on the first machine, with alsa, sound had worked on other sites).
So probably just some random problem on that one machine.
ĸen
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