PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems
Bug #1671273 reported by
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This bug affects 28 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Upgrading Firefox to version 52 on an ALSA-only system breaks audio on all websites.
PulseAudio has apparently become a hard requirement in the latest official build of Firefox, but since PulseAudio is (due to its design) not viable on some systems, this renders Firefox useless as a general-purpose browser.
The upstream code still contains ALSA support. Please re-enable it on Ubuntu. I have read that Arch Linux has already done so.
description: | updated |
tags: | added: xenial |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: | added: regression-update |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.