Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound

Mar 17, 2017, 13:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Joey Sneddon)

If you’re a Linux user who upgraded to Firefox 52 only to find that the browser no longer plays sound, you’re not alone.

Firefox 52 saw release last week and it makes PulseAudio a hard dependency — meaning ALSA only desktops are no longer supported.

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