Which browser to choose?

[aug]

I worked for years now with firefox and alsasound but after updating to the latest version i found out it requires pulseaudio. So i installed pulseaudio.tcz - but it don't work. No clue why.....
Tryed chromium (which gaves sound) but the tcz is very outdated and so i can't install a adblocker from the store....and it seems that several sites can't work with this version.

[hiro]

This is one of the reasons why I minimize my web usage lately, especially video watching in the browser.
You can try dillo and opera9.

If this isn't enough and I really need web stuff, I rdp into a windows machine that has the newest chrome installed. There's no chance for me personally to run a newer chrome on my laptop directly: google maps recently started showing a "lite" view that does nothing, because my gpu is too old. That is even though I disable gpu acceleration features in my browser... insanity.

[polikuo]

Start the dbus and restart your firefox.

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sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus start
To make it permanent, add this line in your /opt/bootlocal.sh

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/usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus start &

[Misalf]

In addition to starting dbus I have this script
/home/tc/.X.d/pulseaudio

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if [ $(which pulseaudio) ]; then
dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
start-pulseaudio-x11
fi &



[coreplayer2]

Firefox no longer directly supports ALSA, however pulsaudio is. 

Follow the instructions in pulseaudio's info file to get pulseaudio working then you shouldn't have any issues with audio in Firefox.

I feel that if using pulseaudio, then one might as well have a gui to control it.  For that I install only pavuconrol.tcz

[coreplayer2]

To get pulseaudio working you'll need to add a command to each of bootlocal.sh, ~/.X.d/dbus and ~/X.d./pulseaudio

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echo "/usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus start" >> /opt/bootlocal.sh
echo "start-pulseaudio-x11" >> ~/.X.d/pulseaudio
And possibly (I find it's not required in my system, but YMMV

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echo "sudo dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session" >> ~/.X.d/dbus
Then make sure these changes are made persistent which ever way is convenient..

On reboot you'll not be limited in any way

[coreplayer2]

Always use the latest Firefox and Flash.   

I use "YouTube Flash Video Player" Firefox add-on to switch between high resolution (HD) Flash Player as opposed to the standard HTML5 player. 

[curaga]

Comments elsewhere say the apulse wrapper works for Firefox videos.

[coreplayer2]

apulse sounds like it's worth exploring, thanks

[coreplayer2]

ok thanks curaga I'm impressed with "APULSE"

I made an apulse extension and it simply just works..


With just alsa and apulse installed, we have sound using Firefox while visiting Deezer, Pandora and YouTube.  No pulseaudio or dbus. 

[coreplayer2]

For a script to install apulse wrapper libraries go here http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21268.msg132892.html#msg132892