Firefox: ALSA and Pulseaudio

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USE=-pulseaudio : audio will not play without pulseaudio installed

ALSA support removed

In Firefox release 52, Mozilla disabled ALSA support by default and made Firefox default to Pulseaudio.

Within Gentoo, in an ALSA-only system (i.e. with the flag -pulseaudio), sound will not work in the pre-compiled binaries (www-client/firefox-bin) but it will work is you compile the full package yourself (www-client/firefox).