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		gue5t on Nov 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57 Linux's native audio API is ALSA; consult the kernel sources if you don't believe me. Pulse is a common userspace audio system, but is not the native Linux audio API.

shmerl on Nov 13, 2017 [–]

Which doesn't mean Firefox should support the kernel API directly, or every audio system out there. And other systems probably have wrappers for PulseAudio API.

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