How to make sound work on Mozilla Firefox 52?

Question

I use Lubuntu, which I believe does not use pulse-audio, or uses a container for that, I do not know, but it seems to use alsa well.

Since I upgrade to Firefox 52, which does not accept plugins anymore, the sound stopped working, and it shows a tip to fix that, but when I click on it, the site does not exist anymore.

How can I fix the sound on Firefox 52 without replacing alsa?

youtobe requires sound

tip do not exists

A bug has been filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1671273 — DK Bose, Mar 12 '17 at 14:42
And possible duplicate: http://askubuntu.com/questions/891541/lubuntu-update-no-more-sound-online — DK Bose, Mar 12 '17 at 14:46
Try [this link](https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Videos-sound-pictures-and/tkb-p/Videos-Sounds-Pictures) — Elder Geek, Mar 12 '17 at 14:55
If you don't want to use pulseaudio and stick to ALSA, then use [apulse](https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse) — Severus Tux, Jun 29 '17 at 05:42

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 13 '17 at 15:30

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Firefox 52 comes built-in with pulseaudio as default sound output.

So on a system with alsa only, sound is broken on firefox 52.

You can either rebuild firefox 52 with alsa using --disable-pulseaudio --enable-alsa as compile option switches.

Or install pulseaudio if you dare!

edited Mar 13 '17 at 15:30

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answered Mar 12 '17 at 13:11

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AFAIK Lubuntu does use `pulseaudio`. Since there's no point of using ALSA in 2017 anyway, just do `sudo apt install pulseaudio pavucontrol`. – dat tutbrus Mar 12 '17 at 13:21
@dat-tutbrus maybe, sometimes appears PULSE*.log files on my home, I always delete these files. – Tiago Pimenta Mar 12 '17 at 14:28
`dpkg --get-selections |grep pulse` gives me `libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64` and `libpulse0:amd64` only. – Tiago Pimenta Mar 13 '17 at 00:11
I will try it in a VM, that is why I didn't answer yet, but even one of these solutions work, they are not what I expected. – Tiago Pimenta Mar 13 '17 at 08:11
The sound worked on qemu with pulseaudio installed, although I was not what I wanted to do, I am trying to rebuild firefox with alsa, but I cannot get it working, I will wait for Firefox working with alsa. – Tiago Pimenta Mar 19 '17 at 13:15

heynnema · Answer 2 · 2017-03-12T15:17:52.180

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Try using Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release). It still supports plugins.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ for more information.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/ for downloads.

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answered Mar 12 '17 at 14:57

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unfortunately it is not supported by the official repository, but I have tried the tarball and the result was the same – Tiago Pimenta Mar 12 '17 at 15:02
@TiagoPimenta but can't you install your desired plugins into ESR? – heynnema Mar 12 '17 at 15:09
I never installed anything to get the sound working, if it was a plugin it was built in. Maybe java works with ESR, but the sound still does not. – Tiago Pimenta Mar 12 '17 at 17:27
I was hoping that ESR still supported the pulseaudio that you need. Did you install pulseaudio? – heynnema Mar 12 '17 at 17:32

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