[Bug 218704] www/firefox has no sound.

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            Bug ID: 218704
           Summary: www/firefox has no sound.
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: gecko at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: peter.henderson at ieee.org
          Assignee: gecko at FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(gecko at FreeBSD.org)

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

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