I just read this on the changelog:
* Disable ALSA backend for Firefox 55 because it makes the build failure.
This will remain disabled until somebody steps up to maintain it
So ALSA support got temporary disabled because the current state seems to be
not fully compatible with Firefox 55. Hopefully this can be fxed soon but since
upstream (Mozilla) does not intend to reconsider supporting ALSA again I wonder
if this will get more and more tricky to maintain for downstream (Ubuntu) in
the future and if at some point support for ALSA will fully stop.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1718336
Title:
Firefox requires PulseAudio for working sound again
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 dev with Firefox 55.0.2+build1-0ubuntu4 and
Firefox requires PulseAudio for working sound again. This is a
regression of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1671273 and
there is a report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/lubuntu-meta/+bug/1710993 but it seems to be Lubuntu-specific.
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