Fresh Install - No sound on Firefox

[Moltke]

Hi there,
I'm a newbie in Linux ... I've just installed LL 4.2 UEFI 64 on a Cherry Trail Z8350 notebook and it looks great... I've done the update as directed by the Welcome Page but there but there is no sound coming from Firefox when I play Youtube videos...
I've read the instructions here
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/tutor...n#msg49454
but Firefox is NOT listed on my VOLUME CONTROL page under playback (all Streams)..
Could anyone help me, please?
Thanks!

Hi [member=10011]crib[/member] and welcome to the forums!
I assume, since you didn't mention it, that everything else works fine, I mean, you can play media say, in vlc and hear that there is sound, is this correct? I have two ideas:
1. You might try with another browser and see if it only happens with firefox, I'd suggest pale moon since you don't have to actually install it to use it, just download the tarball from here http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ extract it wherever you like, I'd recommend your home dir though, double click on the executable file call palemoon - see the img below - and check whether there's or not sound, if there is sound then you'll be sure it's only firefox, if not, then something else might be happening.



2. Uninstall firefox, open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo apt-get remove firefox

then reinstall it

Code:

sudo apt-get install firefox

once it's reinstalled, launch it and see if the problem continues. If it does you might try the first method just to rule out any other problem.

Hope this helps!