![]() ![]() It’s no surprise that we (like many Linux users) were idly unaware of the change. So what’s going on? Wasn’t Mentioned in Release Notes It didn’t take long to discover that the audio was broken, with Firefox suggesting, via a browser pop-up bar, that I needed that I needed to install PulseAudio to the fix the problem, as ALSA audio is no longer supported,” he writes in a post on his blog. ![]() “Firefox 52 arrived in the Ubuntu repositories yesterday on 08 March 2017, and so I took some time out from testing Chromium to see how it worked. Reader Adam Hunt is among those affected by the decision. Lubuntu 16.10 users are not affected as the distro switched to PulseAudio. Lubuntu users who upgraded to Firefox 52 through the regular update channel were, without warning, l eft with a web browser that plays no sound. Lubuntu 16.04 LTS is one of the distros that use ALSA by default. Ubuntu uses PulseAudio by default (as most modern Linux distributions do) so the switch won’t affect most - but some Linux users and distros do prefer, for various reasons, to use ALSA, which is part of the Linux kernel. ![]() 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.įirefox 52 saw release last week and it makes PulseAudio a hard dependency - meaning ALSA only desktops are no longer supported. Many Linux users are seeing this banner alert ![]()
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