370813 - FIREFOX_DSP setting should be a preference

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

Hi,
  (As per Ubuntu bug 53092 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/53092 )
  It seems odd to me that FIREFOX_DSP is an environment variable while almost everything else is adjustable as a config/preference - even if it was only in about:config.
  It's a pretty common problem for users and it really doesn't feel right, and it seems nasty for people to have to get out a shell to fix something that should just work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
A prefernce setting for the same options that FIREFOX_DSP drives.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That environment variable isn't part of the standard Firefox build - is it Ubuntu specific ?

Comment 2

[Alexander Sack]

Yes, this is ubuntu/debian specific. The debian/ubuntu startscripts starts firefox wrapped with sound server wrapper determined by this env variable. Closing as invalid.