#857249 firefox-esr: emojis not displayed in Google hangouts

Package:
firefox-esr
Source:
firefox-esr
Description:
Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)
Submitter:
Dale Harris
Date:
2025-11-25 11:01:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#857249#5
Date:
2017-03-09 06:47:55 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,


This problem exists in this latest version of Firefox that Debian is
using. When using Google hangouts via the Gmail web gui, emojis are not
being displayed. Appears lots of people are having the same issue on
other platforms.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/hangouts/nUXEfD--EOE;context-place=topicsearchin/hangouts/category$3Agmail|sort:relevance|spell:false

Mozilla is trying to fix the problem.
#857249#10
Date:
2017-03-09 07:00:09 UTC
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Firefox didn't contain an emoji font before version 50. Please try
firefox-esr from experimental (version 52.0esr-1) or firefox 52 from
unstable.

Mike
#857249#15
Date:
2017-03-09 14:37:44 UTC
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Firefox 52 does fix the issue.  Was Google providing some sticker to
make that work? Because emojis were displayed, in some fashion, in
recent versions of Firefox.
#857249#20
Date:
2017-03-09 22:15:51 UTC
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Some sticker or some web font, presumably. Google likes to remove
support for browsers older than a few months, so if all of the recent
versions of the most used browsers can now render emoji without anything
provided by the server, they might have removed whatever they had that
made it work.

Mike
#857249#25
Date:
2025-11-25 10:52:10 UTC
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I think we can close this bug:
Google Hangout has been killed by Google since 6~ years.
https://gcemetery.co/google-hangouts/