Firefox locks sound

[Kahn Seidl]

I have the same problem.  And it happened after I installed flash 9(before 
install flash sound didn't work)

---martin


>From: "Mark Knoop" <mpknoop at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Firefox locks sound
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:10:39 +0000
>
>On 23/01/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 21:12 -0600, Justin W wrote:
>> > I'm having a problem with my sound every time I use Firefox. From what
>> > I'm able to gather, Firefox is locking my sound device somehow and
>> > will play most of the time while the rest of my system is unable to
>> > make a sound.
>>
>>Just a note to say that you're not alone.  I have also had sites that
>>use sound (whether it be part of Flash, or some background racket), make
>>it impossible to play sounds with other applications until you quit
>>Firefox.
>
>It is unlikely that Firefox is the culprit, more likely that a plugin
>is to blame. The old version of Flash did not use alsa and did tend to
>hang on to the sound device. Have you installed the new version
>9.0.31? What other plugins are you using?
>
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>Mark Knoop
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