GNU bug report logs - #51302
live stream media audio bug in icecat

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From: Tadayoshi <tadayoshifirefox <at> protonmail.ch>
To: "bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org>
Subject: live stream media audio bug in icecat
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:12:45 +0000

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trying my luck here. since 3 updates i have had issues with icecat on live stream players.
i found out when HLS is enabled for videos it starts to happen. At least on

https://libreddit.spike.codes/
i need it enabled for sound.
i tried setting the sandbox to 1 and it did not change the issue.
maybe you got any idea about it.

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Message #8 received at 51302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Tadayoshi <tadayoshifirefox <at> protonmail.ch>, 51302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51302: live stream media audio bug in icecat
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:54:09 -0400

Tadayoshi via bug-gnuzilla via GNUzilla bug reports
<bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org> writes:

> trying my luck here. since 3 updates i have had issues with icecat on live stream players.
> i found out when HLS is enabled for videos it starts to happen. At least on
>
> https://libreddit.spike.codes/
> i need it enabled for sound.
> i tried setting the sandbox to 1 and it did not change the issue.
> maybe you got any idea about it.

It might help to set "privacy.resistFingerprinting" to "false" in
<about:config>.  I've found that some audio/video players misbehave if
it's set to "true".

Would you like to try it and report back?

Note that "privacy.resistFingerprinting" is set to "true" by default in
IceCat, but it's set to "false" by default in upstream Firefox.

     Regards,
       Mark

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: 51302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Tadayoshi <tadayoshifirefox <at> protonmail.ch>
Subject: Re: bug#51302: live stream media audio bug in icecat
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:01:52 -0400

Earlier, I wrote:
> It might help to set "privacy.resistFingerprinting" to "false" in
> <about:config>.  I've found that some audio/video players misbehave if
> it's set to "true".
>
> Would you like to try it and report back?

Tadayoshi sent me a private reply letting me know that my suggestion
solved the problem for the audio/video players that were previously
misbehaving.

It might be that we should expose this option in the "IceCat-specific
privacy settings" in <about:preferences#privacy>.  We would need to
write the descriptive text to describe the tradeoffs.

Thoughts?

       Mark

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