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> FF removed Linux native audio support and nobody cares

No, they didn't. I'm listening to Soundcloud in my Firefox right now; it's sending sound to PulseAudio just fine.

What you actually meant to say is that Firefox removed support for those 1% of Linux users (i.e. 0.01% of total users) that don't have PulseAudio for whatever reason.

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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.

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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