The application volumes are different from the ringer and notification volume. If you look in your Sound settings, there are 2 settings to adjust for ringer and notifications (which takes cares of text and calls) and the Alarm volume (which obviously takes care of the alarm). If you go into an application and use the volume button changer, you are only changing the volume for the application. If this does not answer your question/ issue, please post back to us so we can know more to better suit our users and file a bug to have what you are looking for to be added in later versions.

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Thanks for your reply! Try this: 1. Go to settings/sound, set max volume on ringer & notifications. 2. Open firefox browser and press volume down to nothing. Press o to get to home screeen. 3. Press power button to lock phone. 4. Press it again to light the screen up and press volume button one time up. 5. Go to settings/sound again...

My ringer volume is affected by the application volume, is this only for my phone?

It would be perfect if user could choose that volume button cant affect ringtone/sms volume (like it is with alarm) then a silent mode that mute not just ringtone but alarm and notifications to.

To further explain where the volume controls are going, 'There's multiple different settings for audio volume:

• audio.volume.content: Affects the "content" and "normal" audio channels. It's an integer between 0 and 15 where 0 means muted (but not paused).
• audio.volume.notification: Affects the "notification" and "ringer" channels. It's an integer between 0 and 15.
• audio.volume.alarm: Affects the "alarm" channel. It's an integer between 0 and 15.
• audio.volume.telephony: Affects the "telephony" channel. It's an integer between 0 and 5.
• audio.volume.bt_sco: Volume when bluetooth headset is plugged in. It's an integer between 0 and 15.'

Take from https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/AudioChannels

So as per stated before, the Ringer & Notification has a different setting than the Alarm, as well as the Telephony voice and the content as well as blue tooth volume.

I agree that it can get rather confusing with which volume is getting affected when. In general if the sound is currently going off, then most likely that is what the volume is controlling. We should probably file a bug on somehow getting the volume controlling less confusing.

I did find this one for 1.3 Bug 887633 - Ringer and notification volume setting needs separation (edit) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=887633

I added info, not sure if this could be a separate bug.