debian - no audio in videos - pulseaudio required

[milomak]

i am running debian sid. and ff esr.

when i open a video in the browser there is no audio. for instance this video. the volume is all the way up in youtube. no volume.

i open the same video up in chrome and there is audio.

what am i missing in ff to have the audio play?

i am runnign the ff esr from the mozilla website and i don't have pulse running on my system

[milomak]

it turns out that pulseaudio is required as a dependency

surely this should not be the case

[James]

The official builds of Firefox for Linux has required PulseAudio since Firefox 52.0 and later as 51.0 and earlier used ALSA as a fallback.

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/52.0/releasenotes/

[Grumpus]

You should be able to install the Pulse system required from the Debian site
Operating Ubuntu and Linux Mint are based on Debian and the sound is fine from the YouTube with Pulse installed.
This is the search page for the Stable+ release Pulse

[mightyglydd]

surely this should not be the case

Who needs sound ? Why should users chose which software they want to use. = Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Unpleasant reading, particularly the Anthony Jones posts.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661

[milomak]

surely this should not be the case

Who needs sound ? Why should users chose which software they want to use. = Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Unpleasant reading, particularly the Anthony Jones posts.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661

thanks