firefox-58.0

[ken@…]

The release appears to be available, although the scheduled date is 23rd January. This needs at least rustc-1.21.0 (from memory), 1.23.0 is current.

For me, there is no sound if I build with pulse (tested with rustc-1.21.0, 1.22.1, 1.23.0 against various beta versions - all with the same result).

Raised as ​https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429540 but nobody else has managed to reproduce it, and I don't understand what values to put into mozregression.

Meanwhile, Tim got sound working with alsa using 58.0b16 - on one of his machines he had to play with about:config. I'm now running with alsa on two machines - on one I had already turned off the sandbox in case that solved the pulse failure (it didn't), on the other I had to whitelist syscall 16 as Tim had noted for a safer workaround.

For the moment I'm the only person where pulse has been tried and doesn't work - not sure what to put in the book.

Until the release date, priority is normal - once the release notes appear, the priority will probably increase.

[ken@…]

Looking at the diff between beta16 and the release, there are changes to media/libcubeb/src/resampler.{cpp,h} which might possibly help - cubeb is where the pulse problem showed. I'll try pulse again for my first build.

[ken@…]

On one of my beta builds I had installed libnotify to get past an error at the end of the install, but on this main machine I apparently did not do that. A measured install failed because of that.

[ken@…]

Replying to ken@…:

Looking at the diff between beta16 and the release, there are changes to media/libcubeb/src/resampler.{cpp,h} which might possibly help - cubeb is where the pulse problem showed. I'll try pulse again for my first build.

No help, still silent, stderr reports

[Child 22705, MediaPlayback #2] WARNING: 7f717c2fe940 Can't get cubeb context!: file /scratch/working/firefox-58.0/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp, line 358

Will rebuild for alsa.

[ken@…]

Release notes at ​https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/

In particular: User profiles created in Firefox 58 (and in future releases) are not supported in previous versions of Firefox. Users who downgrade to a previous version should create a new profile for that version.

The usual set of CVE fixes, see ​https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/

[ken@…]

Hopefully, fixed in r19693. But there has been so much churn in my testing this week that I'll leave this open for a bit, in case I copied wrong measurements somewhere.