Comment 282 for bug 192888

That is excellent news. Thank you to all the people who have been working on this!

I see the sense in what Conn suggests about testing in Intrepid and backporting to Hardy at a later date. However I am concerned about how much time this is likely to take. The web browser is the single most important desktop application, the one that everyone uses even if they use nothing else. At the moment a huge amount of web content is off limits to firefox. This is a very serious breakage that patently merits some fairly radical tinkering if that is what it takes to fix it, and that merits it in a real hurry. At the moment I am finding that I have to open Opera whenever I want to view pages with flash content. How long is Jo/e User going to put up with having to do something like that before s/he reinstalls Windows?

Or to put it another way, how serious is the risk of breaking hardy through a poorly implemented upgrade of libasound compared to the undeniable fact that the web browser is already crippled?