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CDNDaddyBear
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June 17, 2018
Question

Flash Playing in Container (FireFox)

  • June 17, 2018
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Good day kind people.

I am experiencing an issue with Flash that I did not experience prior to recent days.  I am using the up-to-date Flash player 30.0.0.113

I belong to an online Karaoke site (www.singsnap.com) which uses Flash as its base.  In order to sing live in the chat room, I must enable "Stereo Mix" in my "Recording Devices" and make it my default communication device.  I also have my Yeti Blue Mic enabled.  Together with those two settings, I can sing live in the chatroom with sound being collected from my microphone mixed with the sound coming from the website.  I open a second tab, look up the song and I play that song.  The music player/recorder also uses Flash as well.

The issue I am having is that the sound for the website is not playing through the normal FireFox volume control, rather it is playing through a Flash Container which does NOT allow me to mix it with Stereo Mix.  The Firefox volume control is silent.  Muting it does nothing.  Muting the container kills the sound altogether.

I have tried many things in order to get the sound to play outside the flash container, but it continualy forces the sound into a container.

Playing sound from a website that does not use flash plays correctly under the FireFox volume control

This is NOT a graphics card problem.

Any help you can offer would be great.

UPDATE:  June 18/18

Somewhere I got a reply from someone asking for the URL of the site I was using.  I cannot seem to find that message anymore.  I did delete everything with Flash including the subdirectories and did a fresh install.   Install was successful but I am still getting the FireFox Container notwithstanding containers are not activated in FireFox.  Still at a loss as to why Flash is running in a container as opposed to just running through the FireFox volume mixer.

Message was edited by: Damien Dommer

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jeromiec83223024
Inspiring
June 18, 2018

I bet that you moved from 32-bit Firefox to 64-bit Firefox, and you're running into a difference in the sandbox behavior.  You're better off with 64-bit Firefox for browsing the web in general, but you should be able to keep them both installed in parallel. 

You can get the 32-bit one from their advanced options and other downloads link:

Download Firefox — Free Web Browser

CDNDaddyBear
Participant
June 18, 2018

Thank you for your reply.  I took your advice and I downloaded and installed the 32 bit version.  Unfortunately, this version also opens up a Container in FireFox.   Verified  - HELP - ABOUT - it is the 32 bit version.

As I have this window open, there is a FireFox volume slider in my Volume Mixer.  If I go to my Karaoke website and go into the chat service, I get the Firefox container.

You do need a sign in for you to get into the site.  www.singsnap.com

Damien

jeromiec83223024
Inspiring
June 18, 2018

I don't think we've changed anything that would cause this.  My guess is that this is going to be a Firefox change.

What about Firefox ESR 52.0.8?

Firefox Extended Support Release for Your Organization, Business, Enterprise — Mozilla

Also, what version of Windows are we talking about?