Canonical Pocket Desktop

webrtc does not work properly with Firefox on Pocket Desktop

Bug #1565046 reported by Christopher Townsend
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical Pocket Desktop
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Libertine
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned
Puritine
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Pat reported that webrtc sites are not working properly with Firefox on Frieza.

Sites include:
https://opentokrtc.com/
https://apprtc.appspot.com/

Message on the screen from opentokrtc.com:

Incompatible Browser
The video component of this application is powered by OpenTok on WebRTC. To enable this functionality, please use Google Chrome or Firefox.

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Christopher Townsend (townsend)
description: updated
Christopher Townsend (townsend)
description: updated
Christopher Townsend (townsend)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Christopher Townsend (townsend) wrote :

As a data point, these sites work fine on Firefox in a Puritine style chroot on Xenial Unity8 on a desktop.

So it's either an arm issue, Vivid issue, or something special about the device itself such as permissions, etc. Will continue to investigate....

Revision history for this message
Christopher Townsend (townsend) wrote :

After some more digging, I have discovered that WebRTC is disabled by default in armhf builds of Firefox. I was able to enable it via installing the WebRTC Control add-on in Firefox.

After enabling it, the complaint of the unsupported web browser goes away, but the camera and microphone do not work. I suspect that may have to do with device mappings inside the container.

Changed in puritine:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in libertine:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in puritine:
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - webrtc does not work properly with Firefox on Frieza
+ webrtc does not work properly with Firefox on Pocket Desktop
Revision history for this message
Christopher Townsend (townsend) wrote :

Going to mark this Won't Fix as there are a few issues out of our control, first being that arm versions of Firefox have WebRTC disabled by default.

Changed in puritine:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in libertine:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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