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My microphone isn't working.

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I keep trying to host webcam chats on mylol.com, but nobody can hear me no matter how loud I talk. I give permission for the webcam and microphone, and the webcam works just fine, but the microphone is not working. How can I solve this?

I keep trying to host webcam chats on mylol.com, but nobody can hear me no matter how loud I talk. I give permission for the webcam and microphone, and the webcam works just fine, but the microphone is not working. How can I solve this?

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Firefox should detect the default microphone and camera. There is a way to change it, this was the bug to fix this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804611

Please also check the settings here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-common-audio-and-video-issues#w_...


The audio preferences are in the Media Mixer in Windows 7, the stored cookie may still have a previous preference if it was recently changed. Though this would be strange.

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Go to the web page. Once the page is loading, mouse to the address bar and Left click the icon. A window for displaying site information should come up. Select More Information. Now select Permissions. In the menu, find and check the plugins, make sure they are set properly.

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Is this with using a plugin like Flash?

In that case you can try to reset the Flash local storage and also check the permissions in Flash.

  • Windows Control Panel > Flash Player > Storage: Local Storage Settings
    • Remove a specific domain: Local Storage Settings by site
    • Remove all domains: Delete All and Delete Data

Flash Website Storage Settings panel:

Global Storage Settings Panel:

Flash Global Privacy Settings:

See also Flash Privacy settings: