1348569 - No Sound on sites in browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1345661

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
Build ID: 20120216081259

Steps to reproduce:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0

Steps to reproduce:

I upgraded Firefox to version 52 on an ALSA-only linux system Kubuntu 12.04, 14.04.

52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 AMD64

I do not have pulseaudio, will not install, as 1) ALSA works great, 2) ALSA plugins to process audio on other software is needed by my systems.






Actual results:


All sites that play audio are now broken.


Expected results:


Audio playback should have continued to work.

This new PulseAudio requirement renders Firefox useless to me as a general-purpose browser. PulseAudio is not viable on some systems, and due to its design, that is extremely unlikely to ever change. By making Firefox depend on it, you have just forced me to spend my time preparing a migration to another browser on the systems I maintain or support.

Please return ALSA support to the standard build so that we can once again use Firefox.