941251 - getUserMedia doesn't work in Firefox/Unity in Ubuntu 13.10

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1217091

I recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 which ships with Firefox 25 (updated to 25.0.1) and noticed that getUserMedia does not work at all. There is no door-hanger prompt and no errors shown in the browser console whatsoever.

The above has been reported by various users on launchpad.

Comment #4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1217091/comments/4 points to an alsa-lib issue.

Just filing this in-case there's anything affecting Gecko here.

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Firefox 25.0.1

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0
Linux Valkyrie 3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 07:38:26 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 13.10

Comment 1

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/1008600

Still not fixed in 13.10 :-(

Comment 2

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

This is caused by an OS bug