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When running Firefox and a media player simultaneously, the media player keeps skipping and hanging, how to fix this?

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kelori
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This only happens when trying to play mp3s or wmas through windows media player and only when Firefox is also open. Drivers are updated.

This only happens when trying to play mp3s or wmas through windows media player and only when Firefox is also open. Drivers are updated.

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guigs
guigs
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Are you streaming the media in a webpage? If its a video player issue in Firefox please also see: Fix common audio and video issues 

Are the two applications open independently? If its the later please try to minimize the resources Firefox takes Firefox uses too much memory or CPU resources - How to fix