sound problem on youtube

[Mario Guenterberg]

On Do, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:30:34 +0000, Christopher Kelley wrote:
> sometimes, when you close firefox just by clicking the X, it doesnt always close the firefox engine, so when you go to bring up an instance of firefox, it will tell you that its already open and will refuse to run unless you kill firefox-bin. i think thats a bug with firefox
>
Exactly...

> I have this problem sometimes with my ubuntu 7.10 box. The only solution for me is to type:
>
I had/have this on Ubuntu 9.04.

> sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
> sudo modprobe snd_hda_intel  <-----this command will only work if you are using an intel (related) sound card
> 
> Thats what works for me, but i dont think this will help in this area, since the problems is only with flash. I have had problems with alsa before where I will get sound on 1 program, but not another. Try using Pulseaudio instead 

If I killing firefox and start it again, it works perfectly.
The old instance of firefox steals many memory and occupies a 
lot of cpu time :-(

I use pulseaudio with snd_hda_intel and it works fine.

Greetings
Mario

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