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Firefox suddenly stopped playing audio on all web-sites.

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I've checked the autoplay settings, refreshed, re-installed with no joy. All OK in google-chrome. Is there a more obscure setting that might affect audio?

I've checked the autoplay settings, refreshed, re-installed with no joy. All OK in google-chrome. Is there a more obscure setting that might affect audio?

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AAH, right-click the speaker icon; select 'configure audio devices' run a youtube vid in firefox and it appears Somehow firefox was muted in that window...how did that happen? I never knew that was there. Anyway...working again.

Thanks for your assistance.

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I assume windows since no info was provided. Check here. see screenshot Look in device manager, see who makes the audio component, and reinstall or update the driver.

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Sorry, not windows Kubuntu 64bit

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Show the issue. see screenshot I cannot replicate the issue. Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release


Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241111 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.11.6-2-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5825U with Radeon Graphics Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP ProBook 455 15.6 inch G9 Notebook PC

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Hi, I downloaded as you suggested; extracted to the desktop; ran firefox-bin from the folder; changed autoplay setting from 'block audio' (why is that default?) to 'allow audio and video'. Still no sound.

Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.15.0-84-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600

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Show pics of you audio settings. I'm not having any issues. How about running a live usb stick with your OS of choice to see if you still have issues with sound. I have another laptop running KDE 5 and also no issues with sound.

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Are these the settings you want?

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Nope. See my screenshots above. If you're not getting audio from your distro version and Mozilla Firefox, sounds like an system / OS issue. What happens with a live usb stick?

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AAH, right-click the speaker icon; select 'configure audio devices' run a youtube vid in firefox and it appears Somehow firefox was muted in that window...how did that happen? I never knew that was there. Anyway...working again.

Thanks for your assistance.

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