This bug was fixed in the package firefox -
52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
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firefox (52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1) yakkety-security; urgency=medium
* New upstream stable release (52.0.2build1)
- Really fix LP: #1671079 - Don't crash if LOGNAME is not set in the
environment
* Fix LP: #1671273 - Build with --enable-alsa for now to re-enable the
unmaintained ALSA backend. Note that problems with the ALSA backend will
not block future updates and Ubuntu flavors that ship without Pulseaudio
need to participate in maintaining this code
-- Chris Coulson <chris.coul...@canonical.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2017
13:11:13 +0100
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1671273
Title:
PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Upgrading Firefox to version 52 on an ALSA-only system breaks audio on
all websites.
PulseAudio has apparently become a hard requirement in the latest
official build of Firefox, but since PulseAudio is (due to its design)
not viable on some systems, this renders Firefox useless as a general-
purpose browser.
The upstream code still contains ALSA support. Please re-enable it on
Ubuntu. I have read that Arch Linux has already done so.
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