Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #1906741
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1906741

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Errol Terblanche (errolt) wrote : Re: Firefox sometimes causes garbled audio

Running Ubuntu 20.04 and I have the same issue with Firefox.
Watching Netflix works fine, till I go to some sites that has a tendency to crash audio. Then all audio goes garbled. Even doing an audio test in settings gives a garbled echo result.

When audio is crashed like this the pulseaudio service uses high CPU even when no audio is being played.

Opening a terminal and running "pulseaudio -k" to restart pulseaudio seems to fix the issue without closing Firefox or all the media apps.