[Bug 1813170] [NEW] Opening reader mode causes audio distortion in all other tabs

[Corwin Harris]

Public bug reported:

Description:    Ubuntu 18.10
Release:    18.10

firefox:
  Installed: 64.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
  Candidate: 64.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 64.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages

Hardware
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Motherboard: ASRock X399 Taichi
Processor: AMD Threadripper x1900
Video Card: Nvidia GTX 1080
Audio Chipset: Realtek ALC1220

Expectation: Opening reader mode has no audio side effects.

Actual: Occasionally when opening reader mode from any tab all audio in
any other tab will crackle and pop until Firefox is restarted. Issue can
be replicated in safe mode as well.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: audio firefox reader

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