Package: firefox-esr Version: 52.2.0esr-1~deb9u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** It seems that the Firefox 452 does not work with ALSA anymore. The problem i with that is that lots of blind and other visually impaired users use ALSA instead of Pulseaudio. Currently if you want to use both Orca screen reader on desktop and espeakup on console then it is best to use ALSA instead of Pulseaudio because Pulseaudio causes problems if you want to use both Orca and espeakup. Firefox is currrently the only modern web browser on Linux which works with Orca. Now that Mozilla has dropped support for the ALSA there is not a single browser which is really usable if you are blind and especially if you use ALSA instead of Pulseaudio. I know this is not Debians fault, this is fully Mozillas fault. I hope that Debian would make the Firefox-estr 45 available easily atleast for now. Firefox esr 45.9 Worked just fine. I am blind myself and I was thinking of switching from pulseaudio to alsa because I would like to use both Orca and espeakup. But now when there is firefox esr 52 in Debian Stretch I am not sure what should I do. I will probably downgrade Firefox esr to 45.9 using the Debian snapshots repository. I know how to use snapshots but there is lots of blind users who do not even know snapshots repository exists. I know that using old browser may causesevere security risks, but obviously there is not much option... Firefo esr also 52.20 currently in Debian Stretch also does not really work as well with Orca screen reader as Firefox ESR 45.9 did. That is another reason why I am going to downgrade the browser. I will make another bug report about that. This bug report really should be forwarded to Mox zilla too so that they know what they are doing to blind users... -- 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: Default theme Location: /usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi Package: firefox-esr Status: enabled Name: Multi-process staged rollout Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/e10sroll...@mozilla.org.xpi Status: enabled Name: Pocket Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/fire...@getpocket.com.xpi Status: enabled Name: Web Compat Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/webcom...@mozilla.org.xpi Status: enabled -- Plugins information Name: GNOME Shell Integration Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so Package: gnome-shell Status: enabled Name: IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.6.2 (1.6.2-3.1)) Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so Package: icedtea-8-plugin:amd64 Status: enabled Name: iTunes Application Detector Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so Package: rhythmbox-plugins Status: enabled -- Addons package information ii firefox-esr 52.2.0esr-1~ amd64 Mozilla Firefox web browser - Ext ii gnome-shell 3.22.3-3 amd64 graphical shell for the GNOME des ii icedtea-8-plug 1.6.2-3.1 amd64 web browser plugin based on OpenJ ii rhythmbox-plug 3.4.1-2+b1 amd64 plugins for rhythmbox music playe ii xul-ext-adbloc 2.7.3+dfsg-1 all advertisement blocking extension -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages firefox-esr depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.1.1 ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.7+b1 ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-11 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.18-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-2 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-3 ii libffi6 3.2.1-6 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1 ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.2 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libhunspell-1.4-0 1.4.1-2+b2 ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-5 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4+b2 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 ii libvpx4 1.6.1-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcb-shm0 1.12-1 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 firefox-esr recommends no packages. Versions of packages firefox-esr suggests: pn fonts-lmodern <none> pn fonts-stix | otf-stix <none> ii libcanberra0 0.30-3 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.15-1 pn mozplugger <none> -- no debconf information