[Bug-gnuzilla] Suggestion to enable JACK audio backend in IceCat

2017-12-16 Thread Damien Zammit
Hi there, I know a lot of users who would really like their browser to have native JACK audio support (see jackaudio.org). Last year I managed to convince Mozilla to accept a patch that improved the existing JACK audio backend within Firefox to use a callback model instead of a synchronous one an

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Suggestion to enable JACK audio backend in IceCat

2017-12-16 Thread Damien Zammit
On 17/12/17 00:56, Narcis Garcia wrote: > I like this proposal, if not interferes with any other feature, > performance or license. For clarification: 1) The feature it adds (a new audio backend) does not interfere with any other features of the browser, except for one caveat; in the case where t

[Bug-gnuzilla] Building IceCat 52.3.0 from official source tarball failed

2017-12-20 Thread Damien Zammit
Hi, I tried to build IceCat 52.3.0 from the official source tarball by following the instructions in the README.IceCat file. In addition to the instructions, I needed to touch a missing file and remove a few references to missing icons in browser/installer/package-manifest.in, but I finally manag

Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Alsa IceCat

2018-02-22 Thread Damien Zammit
I got JACK support for IceCat merged into Fedora. Jack support is already in Firefox, just add --enable-jack at compile time to the mozconfig. This might be better than using ALSA since ALSA will block the sound card for other audio apps. Damien On 23/02/18 08:00, Gary wrote: On Feb 22, 20