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no sound with firefox anymore

Asked by R.Kasahara

Recently all audio no longer works when I use Firefox. This not a problem when I use my other Mozilla browser. Does anyone know how I could get the audio back? There is nothing in the perferences that turn off sound and I do not believe it is anything I have installed into Firefox as the only plugin I have installed was Download Helper, and I had sound for a while after installing that.

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Chris Rowson (christopherrowson) said : 		#1

Could you give an example of the websites you are visiting that lack sound please?

For instance are you viewing flash content, realplayer etc?

Cheers

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R.Kasahara (here-we-go) said : 		#2

The websites I am noticing the problem are the ones with Flash Content like Youtube and Daily Motion. I don't really go to websites that have sounds that aren't flash content, so I don't know if this problem is bigger than just that. If you know a good non-flash site I could test, I would be more than happy to see if I can hear something there.

Thank you in advance

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davee (davee-sungate) said : 		#3

Depending on your sound setup, you might not be able to play sound from more than one source simultaneously. Do you have any other applications which might be using sound open at the same time as Firefox?

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Best R.Kasahara (here-we-go) said : 		#4

That seems to be the exact problem. I made sure everything else was turned off and checked to see if Firefox would play audio and then it did, as long as nothing else was playing as well.

Thank you for all your help. Now I can rest easy.

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AndersSolliSal (salanderssolli) said : 		#5

Hey! I seem to have the same problem but maybe I need another solution. I too can play audio from other players, just sound and movies, but on firefox on sites like youtube, there's just no audio.
Hope anyone can help me..
Anders

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AndersSolliSal (salanderssolli) said : 		#6

Yeah and, I forget to say, I'm not using any other programs that can play audio at the same time..
Anders

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alann (alan-nafa) said : 		#7

Yes please help, i have this exact problem. I have rthymbox open and now sound on firefox, then i exited and loaded firefox.. and now i have sound on firefox but no sound on rthymbox. And now when i close firefox... rthymbox still has NO SOUND. Please help.

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trondstrom (trond-ringnett) said : 		#8

have you tried: sudo apt-get install libflashsupport ? this solved the problem for me

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phreakincool (phreakincool) said : 		#9

This work for me after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 from 8.04, using Firefox 3.0.4:

   sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

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Chip Valor (chipvalor1) said : 		#10

I had Windows and my nephew changed me over to Intendu (or what ever it's called and now I don't have any sound at all on Youtube which is All I use it for! Any ideas anyone (my nephew moved a couple of days after he did this)?