Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin

[Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:59:13PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:42:11AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote:
> > I had the same problem and found that starting up dbus and avahidaemon
> > solved it.  With older versions of Firefox, this wasn't necessary.
> > I'd be interested to see if there are other solutions to this, since
> > I'd rather not run dbus/avahi.
> 
> Entirely agree. It's scary to do so much for a web browser. Can someone
> confirm this hypothesis?
> 
> If true, shouldn't it be a captured as a dependency?

I notice that those are dependencies, but only indirectly.  The
problem direct dependency is pulseaudio, which has dbus and avahi as
its dependencies.  I wonder if it's possible to build a recent Firefox
using some other audio backend.  It seems worthwhile, since pulseaudio
is a real CPU hog and it might also eliminate the need for dbus/avahi.

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