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Firefox sets process sound to 100% on every new tab, new youtube video, podcast, etc

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Running fedora 34, gnome.

Firefox sets the process volume to 100% whenever a new youtube video plays, whenever sound on a new tab plays, even when I forward on a player on website in a tab.

This is very painful on my ears at times, is there anything I can do about it?

Thank you!

Running fedora 34, gnome. Firefox sets the process volume to 100% whenever a new youtube video plays, whenever sound on a new tab plays, even when I forward on a player on website in a tab. This is very painful on my ears at times, is there anything I can do about it? Thank you!
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Try downloading another copy of Firefox and run it from the folder. Do not sign into your Firefox account and see if you have the same issue.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

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What desktop are you running? I also see the same thing with each tab being at 100% volume. see screenshot Firefox or Desktop Environment issue... I would guess Desktop, but someone more websavvy will have to chime in.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20211228 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.15.8-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4600

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Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately downloading and running from the folder did not solve my problem - although I'm kind of glad to see the same happening on someone else's machine :)

This is my environment

OS: Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four) x86_64 Host: Vostro 5590 Kernel: 5.15.10-100.fc34.x86_64 Packages: 2607 (rpm), 11 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.1.0 Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: GNOME 40.6 WM: Mutter WM Theme: Adwaita Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] CPU: Intel i7-10510U (8) @ 4.900GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX250 GPU: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] Memory: 3812MiB / 23816MiB

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I uncheck the option in the red circle and the last 3 tabs that I opened are not at 100%. see screenshot

Modified by jonzn4SUSE

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Thanks for the reply, hope you're having a great new year :)

Perhaps I'm being silly, but I can't find where you're finding that red circle? I don't have that configure button on the sound settings....