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

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:37:44AM -0500, Dale Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 
> 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.

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