[CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

Mon Oct 19 12:24:46 UTC 2020
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 10:26:50PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 10/17/20 3:38 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, and
> > FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers.  Is there some magic I need to do?  As
> > a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68.  My system is otherwise
> > up-to-date.
> 
> I'm seeing the same problem (I'm not using any mic) on several CentOS 6 systems.
> I posted about it here back on Sept. 29.
> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-September/351667.html
> 
> Downgrading, and excluding the 78.3.0-1 from yum is my workaround.

Well, the good news is you have over a month to migrate away from
CentOS 6, which goes end of life at the end of November, 2020.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>