[Bug 213964] www/firefox make sound options mutually exclusive

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213964

--- Comment #1 from Jan Beich (mail not working) <jbeich at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to tigersharke from comment #0)
> although it successfully builds there is no audio produced via Firefox. 

Try updating past bug 211684 fix.

> conflict between alsa and pulseaudio.

Firefox just prefers PulseAudio if already installed by checking if dlopen()
succeeds. ALSA requires hacks on FreeBSD and even on Linux is poorly
maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056

> If alsa is selected but pulseaudio is not, audio output from Firefox works as expected.

The third (hidden) option uses OSS directly if you deinstall alsa-lib after
build. SNDIO (see bug 212028) is another option.

> I suggest a change from checkboxes in the audio section to the mutually
> exclusive radio buttons. I believe this would be a modification to
> Makefile.options

Which one would be the default? I'm inclined to turn off ALSA. ;)

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