Closed Bug 725509 Opened 12 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Plugin volume disabled when removing\adding USB headset

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Version:
10 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jeffmbarlow, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Build ID: 20120129021758

Steps to reproduce:

I use a USB headset for a softphone application.  It is setup as the default audio device on the machine.  When I'm using a plugin (Flash in this case) to watch a video online, I detached the USB headset from the machine.


Actual results:

Audio capability was lost for the Flash plugin in Firefox (never transferred to speakers upon unplugging headset and does not begin to transmit over headset when plugged back in).

The only way to recover is to restart Firefox or manually kill PluginContainer.exe from task manager.


Expected results:

Audio should go back and forth between the headset and speakers depending on if the headset is plugged in or not.  It should be and was seamless in Firefox 9.  This started happening in Firefox 10.
Firefox doesn't handle the Audio Output from Flash. The Flash plugin itself is responsible for that. Does this work with other NPAPI based Browsers like Opera ?
I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Opera to run some tests.  Works as expected in Opera, no problems.  I remove the USB headset, audio goes right to the speakers on the fly.  I can plug it back in and I'm right back to audio on the headset.
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: untriaged → plugins
It would help if you could narrow down the regression range.
You would have to download a few nightly builds and test them until you find the first build that is broken and the last one that works. Are you willing to do that ?
I'm not sure if it's even worth the time because I've discovered a new wrinkle.  No problems with a Plantronics headset, but do have the problem with a cyber acoustics headset.  So it is very specific to the headset.  What do you think?
We had a fix for the Firefox internal audio. That could fix this too.
Jeff: Is this still a problem ?
Resolving as wont fix, plugin support deprecated in Firefox 85.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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