HowTo: Fix Firefox Flash Sound Issues

[Old Pink]

Sometimes flash just doesn't produce sound, or you can find flash will "give up" playing sound after a given period. Use this fix to stop that.

Easy as pie.

Open terminal, and enter:

sudo aptitude install alsa-oss

Wait for the install to complete, before typing:

gksudo gedit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc

A file will open, and in the file you will see:

FIREFOX_DSP=”none”

Change this to:

FIREFOX_DSP=”aoss”

Hope this helps you all.

Update: I have been notified that this also works on Firefox clones/forks such as "Flock"

[Old Pink]

If this helps you, please leave a comment.

[frequenicity]

This is indeed the fix. Sound will still be slightly out of sync (most notable in streaming video after the initial 20 seconds or so...off by about 1/2 a second) but that, as far as I know, is out of our hands.

[brianC]

I can here again Ican hear agian..... just can't spell!!!!!

[3rr0r]

anyone know how to apply this fix to opera?

[telperion]

anyone know how to apply this fix to opera?

aoss opera

[mrgnash]

Didn't make any difference.

[KDayz]

woot, i think it works now. Thanks alot been looking for this fix. Why doesnt firefox just fix this glitch?

[dalee]

Hi,

Thanks for this HOWTO! I had lost the sound in FireFox. It now works again!

dalee

[evilghost]

Thanks for the fix but I'm not sure that this isn't just a band-aid. Prior to the updates on Sept 19 I didn't have out of sync issues nor was flash an issue. I installed the updates and flash no longer produced sound. I used the fix documented above and tried both "aoss" and "alsa" and both produce the same out of sync issues with "alsa" being less of out of sync.