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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Jun 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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Make it possible to disable usage of pulseaudio

Reported by shent...@gmail.com, Jun 27 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3135.4 Safari/537.36

Example URL:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. start the browser
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What is the expected behavior?
I should have an option in chrome's settings to choose what audio output to use

What went wrong?
Chrome stubbornly insists on using pulseaudio and gives me no choice not to

Did this work before? Yes unknown

Is it a problem with Flash or HTML5? N/A

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 61.0.3135.4  Channel: dev
OS Version: 4.11.6
Flash Version: 

Contents of chrome://gpu: 
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Pulseaudio is a brain damaged piece of crapware that I only have installed because I use applications that refuse to use anything else.  I would like as few applications to depend on pulseaudio as possible.  Most of my applications are set to use ALSA directly and I actually have my pulseaudio demon set as a client of alsa's dmix plugin.
 
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Pulse is not required; if you don't have Pulse installed ALSA will be used. Otherwise you can either build with use_pulseaudio=false or setup your Linux installation to deny Chrome access to pulseaudio drivers; specifically blocking libpulse.so.0 from being loaded by Chrome will cause it fallback to alsa.

Comment 2 by shent...@gmail.com, Jun 27 2017

I'm asking for a menu option to be added to enable or disable pulseaudio at runtime, like in chrome's settings menu.

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