Browser prob

[O. Sinclair]

On 03/01/12 09:49, Bill Vance wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:36:26PM +0200, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:36:26 +0200
>> From: "O. Sinclair"<o.sinclair at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Browser prob
>>
>> On 02/01/12 10:08, Bill Vance wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 12:15:42PM -0600, theuteck at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:15:42 -0600
>>>> From: theuteck at gmail.com
>>>> Subject: Re: Browser prob
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, January 01, 2012 03:00:34 AM Bill Vance wrote:
>>>>> Running 10.04 here.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tried every browser there is, and can't get a single
>>>>> one of them to produce any sound whatsoever.  Whatever the
>>>>> problem is, it seems to be something they _all_ require.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone got any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any sound from other apps?
>>>> I have noticed that KDE starts up muted sometimes fro me, or perhaps something
>>>> changed your backend playback settings.
>>>
>>> Starts up ok, plays DVD's just fine.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>> exactly WHAT are you trying to play (sound) in a browser? Flash
>> movies, html5 or what are we talking about here? For me all works
>> after installing proper plug-ins
>
>
> Youtube movies mainly, but I have run across other uses,
> like an outfit that plays a short segment of vareious cuts
> on a particular audio CD to see if it's the one you want to
> buy, etc.
>

It does sound (ha) to me like a problem with the flash plugin, can you 
check if you can play .flv files (download from somewhere, I use ff 
plugin for that)