maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 218704] www/firefox has no sound.

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Bug 218704: www/firefox has no sound.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218704



--- Description ---
For www/firefox version 53.0_2,1, sound does not work when built with the
standard configuration.

I recently installed FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 and built all ports from scratch,
almost entirely with the default configurations.  I found there was no sound in
firefox, including YouTube videos.  Other applications I tested for sound still
worked, including opera, xmms, vlc-qt4 and the chrome browser.

After much searching, the suggested solution in various forums is to turn off
Pulse Audio in the configuration.  This I did.	After rebuilding firefox, the
sound worked again.

For reference, here is the configuration I used, after turning off Pulse Audio.

ALSA	       : on
BUNDLED_CAIRO  : on
CANBERRA       : off
DBUS	       : on
DEBUG	       : off
DTRACE	       : on
FFMPEG	       : on
GCONF	       : off
GNOMEUI        : off
INTEGER_SAMPLES: off
LIBPROXY       : off
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS: on
PGO	       : off
PROFILE        : off
PULSEAUDIO     : off
RUST	       : on
SNDIO	       : off
TEST	       : off