273490 - Flash audio permanently stops playing after another program plays audio

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 265200

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[particle_mann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Firefox 1.0 with Macromedia Flash 7 installed, under Fedora Core 2/Gnome 2.6. 
Audio works great-until you load another program (like an audio player or movie
player) that uses the soundcard.  Not being able to play audio from two programs
at once is fine.  But after playback on the second program is stopped and even
after the second program is closed down, Firefox is never able to play audio
again until you quit/kill program and restart.  This can be more than a bit of a
pain when you have a lot of tabs/windows open and don't feel like finding
everything again.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Firefox, go to a site with Flash and audio.  Audio will play fine.
2.Close audio containing tab or window, leave Firefox open
3.Start another sound producing program, such as XMMS or Xine.  Play something,
then exit the program.
4.Attempt to load another page with Flash and audio in Firefox.  The visuals
will work fine.  The audio will simply not play.

Actual Results:  
Flash video plays fine, but no accompanying audio.

Expected Results:  
Regained use of the soundcard and played the audio AND video properly.

Problem still occurs with default theme.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 265200 ***