It seems like an odd approach given that Pulse Audio already maps Pulse Audio to ALSA. > exec /usr/local/bin/apulse /opt/firefox/firefox Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit? Unfortunately even having this dependency doesn't guarantee the server being installed somewhere. It looks like Ubuntu doesn't have libpulse0 as a dependency. > Just got hit with this after the latest Ubuntu 16.10 update and strongly It says 'Project is in stale state since its proclamation' so your mileage may vary. > version of Firefox without running PA, please run Firefox via apulse ( > If you're affected by this bug but still want to use the latest and greatest Also given that the ALSA backend is no longer maintained, we aren't adding content sandboxing support. The issue is that people may forget that they're using ALSA and not know why their audio doesn't work. > encouraging linux users back to FlashPlayer plugin to get some kind of

> dependency (compile time option) that breaks html5 video/audio and thus > decision (e.g., by using 'about:config' settings) instead a hard-coded > I wonder how hard could be making the linux sound system backend a user's You need to install the pulse audio sound server but it doesn't need to be on the local system because Pulse Audio supports remote audio. > pulseaudio package, which I don't need at all, and now I've lost audio at I do have installed 'libpulse0' but not the full What is preventing you from installing Pulse Audio? I upgraded Firefox to version 52 on an ALSA-only linux system.

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