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Sound will not change to speakers when headphones are pulled out.

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When i watch video in flash and plug out my headphones i can't get any sound from content within FF without restarting the program. And when i close it the process still runs. But when i shut down the process in task manager and restart it i can hear the sound again. This is extremely annoying! It's wierd that all the other programs on my computer can play on different sources, but if i lean back and my headphones fall out, Firefox cant play any sound until restarted against it's will...

When i watch video in flash and plug out my headphones i can't get any sound from content within FF without restarting the program. And when i close it the process still runs. But when i shut down the process in task manager and restart it i can hear the sound again. This is extremely annoying! It's wierd that all the other programs on my computer can play on different sources, but if i lean back and my headphones fall out, Firefox cant play any sound until restarted against it's will...

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There's a Bug filed about an issue like that.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698079

Needs to be confirmed as to whether it is just a Flash problem (with plugins) or if that happens with audio played directly thru Firefox, not using a plugin.

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Is it possible to let the developers know about this problem? Anyone?

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There's a Bug filed about an issue like that.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698079

Needs to be confirmed as to whether it is just a Flash problem (with plugins) or if that happens with audio played directly thru Firefox, not using a plugin.