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

Thu Mar 9 07:00:09 UTC 2017

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:47:55AM -0500, Dale Harris wrote:
> Package: firefox-esr
> Version: 45.8.0esr-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> 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.

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