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live stream media audio bug in icecat

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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: 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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