Package: firefox Version: 52.0~b9-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Firefox developers apparently changed the default build to no longer supporting sound output except for pulseaudio, which silences firefox on Debian-based systems that chose not to start a pulseaudio daemon as main sound system. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056 . * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Starting firefox with an arbitrary sound-playing (HTML5) website, like youtube, on a Debian system without installed and configured pulseaudio package. * What was the outcome of this action? firefox does not play sound. * What outcome did you expect instead? Working sound over ALSA like in previous firefox versions. *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** Additional information / proposal: Just adding a hard dependency on pulseaudio to the firefox package does not solve the problem, since daemon mode can still be disabled via /etc/pulseaudio.conf. firefox should instead be compile-time configured to keep supporting ALSA output on Debian for keeping compatibility with non-pulseaudio setups. -- Package-specific info: -- Extensions information Name: Adblock Plus Location: /usr/share/xul-ext/adblock-plus Package: xul-ext-adblock-plus Status: enabled Name: Application Update Service Helper Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/aushel...@mozilla.org.xpi Status: enabled Name: Deutsch (DE) Language Pack locale Location: /usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack...@firefox.mozilla.org.xpi Package: firefox-l10n-de Status: enabled Name: FoxyProxy Standard Location: /usr/share/xul-ext/foxyproxy-standard Package: xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard Status: enabled Name: Multi-process staged rollout Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/e10sroll...@mozilla.org.xpi Status: enabled Name: NoScript Location: /usr/share/xul-ext/noscript Package: xul-ext-noscript Status: enabled Name: Pocket Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/fire...@getpocket.com.xpi Status: enabled Name: Standard theme Location: /usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi Package: firefox Status: enabled Name: Video DownloadHelper Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}.xpi Status: enabled Name: Web Compat Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/webcom...@mozilla.org.xpi Status: enabled -- Plugins information -- Addons package information ii firefox 52.0~b9-1 i386 Mozilla Firefox web browser ii firefox-l10n-d 52.0~b9-1 all German language package for Firef ii xul-ext-adbloc 2.6.10+dfsg- all advertisement blocking extension ii xul-ext-foxypr 4.5.6-debian all advanced proxy management tool fo ii xul-ext-noscri 2.9.0.14-1 all permissions manager for Firefox -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 4.5.1 ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.3 ii libatk1.0-0 2.16.0-2 ii libc6 2.24-5 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.12-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-2 ii libffi6 3.2.1-3 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7 ii libfreetype6 2.6-1 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-17 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.4-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.7-2 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libhunspell-1.4-0 1.4.1-2+b1 ii libnspr4 2:4.12-6 ii libnss3 2:3.29.1-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-3 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.11.1-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4 ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-11 ii libvpx4 1.6.0-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxcb-shm0 1.10-3+b1 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1 ii procps 2:3.3.9-9 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 firefox recommends no packages. Versions of packages firefox suggests: ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.4-5 pn fonts-stix | otf-stix <none> ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.14.3+dfsg-2 pn mozplugger <none> -- no debconf information