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Since the last update, I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox on my MacOS. Visiting website such as beatport.com and spotify.com, for exemple, after click on "play", Firefox does not play the sound or video. The same happened with other websites with webplayers.

The problem is on Firefox version 157.0.x (tested on Macbook Air and Mac Mini, same MacOS version).

I'm not sure when it started happening, but whenever I'm watching something full screen, or just full screening, Firefox on Mac, there's this thin white line at the top of the window that's very distracting. Has this been happening to anyone else and does anyone else know how to get rid of it?

All of a sudden all of the videos I watch on YouTube with Firefox are defaulting to mute on my Macbook. I haven't made any changes to settings, etc. I don't have a YouTube account so I can't make any changes there anyway. I am having to unmute each video before I watch it.

When joining my daily Google Meet call, the audio is initially fine but when I change tab, change program or do anything other than look at the Google Meet tab, a crackling develops and gets worse the longer the Google Meet tab is not active. If I then switch to the Meet call, it alleviates the crackle but doesn't disappear altogether.

Things i've tried: - different earphones/headphones, bluetooth and wired, Mac's built-in speakers - disabled extensions - I've tried Chrome browser and the call works fine, no crackling whatsoever

Any ideas?

Lately, whenever I click into a youtube video from within youtube, instead of Firefox blocking autoplay, it mutes the video but lets it play.

Initially, it was muting EVERY video I pulled up, but messing with my settings has fixed the problem if I click into a youtube video from elsewhere (ex. a google search result), or if I refresh the page. It's super annoying to having navigating youtube be this non-functional right now, though, since everything just silently plays until I catch and unmute it! Any help would be super appreciated!

(I'll attach an image with my current autoplay settings.)

Hi, For a few days while I've been watching content on YouTube and several other streaming platforms, I have noticed that my screen will randomly go completely dark, then slowly fade brightness back up. While it is fading back in, there is an intense grey tint over the whole screen that takes longer to fade away than it takes for the brightness to return to (relatively) normal. This seems to only be happening when I am in full screen, and I truly have no idea what setting or issue could be causing it. At first I thought it was part of a video I was watching, but now that it has happened across quite a few videos and several different streaming platforms, I figure it must be something to do with the browser itself. Sometimes when it goes dark, the screen stays practically black for several seconds before beginning to fade the brightness up, sometimes it is less than one second that it's dark before going grey and fading back up. Interacting with some buttons seems to make it go back to normal, although when I click on settings on a video for example, when I click off of it/close settings, the screen goes back to however grey it was when I opened settings. Sound continues normally the whole time, and the only thing that seems to prevent it from happening is not using full screen, which I don't want to have to resort to, but it has become rather annoying and confusing. Any help is appreciated!

I'm on a Mac desktop, Mac Tahoe 26.6.2, using the latest version of Firefox, although this frequently happened in previous versions. Audio often disappears from videos and reels. When I refresh the page, nothing happens. To get sounds working again, I have to quit Firefox and restart, but by then I've lost the reels I was watching. This is a big issue for me as I am a musician. Any ideas on how to fix this permanently?

Hello,

I am having trouble with my Simple Practice connection static and video not functioning for my sessions with clients on Firefox and would like to have this remedied...Maybe I just need an update but looked under Settings and didn't see that option. Please advise. Thank you!

For the past month, out of the blue, I have been unable to play Spotify via my web browser. After troubleshooting with Spotify chat, it seems the issue is actually Firefox, because if I choose to play it via the app installed on my computer, it will play, but not via the web browser.

It was display "Spotify can't play this right now".. then it will skip through three songs, play ads & then will play the first 10 seconds of audio of the next song & then it will cut out.

Anyone else experiencing issues with Spotify via the Firebox web browser?

When listening to live internet radio, after varying minutes, browser stops and I have to refresh and re-establish link. Does not appear to be related to sleep or desktop display issues. Any suggestions how to correct?

Fire fox is automatically playing videos/sound or both if I click on a tab that has that or also in facebook, etc. How do I stop this? I want to be able to click play when I want to hear/see something.