Firefox makes noise

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I am using Firefox as Browser since it appears to be the only one which enables Google’s DRM, so that i can watch Netflix and Youtube.
Strangely i am having crackling noises affecting the Audio in other applications and even in the System Setting’s Audio Test, if Firefox is running :sleepy:. Closing Firefox results immediately into a fine and clear Audio.

My Audio according to inxi :disguised_face::
Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio vendor: Sapphire driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 3-3:5 pcie: chip-ID: b58e:0005 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 28:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 2a:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
Device-3: Blue Microphones Yeti Nano type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.14.21-150500.55.39-default running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.64 running: yes

Do i miss a configuration in Firefox for avoidance of such crackling noises?
Or is anybody aware of a different Browser that does not create side effects on the Audio but allows watching Netflix and Youtube?
(I do not want to use Chrome :-1: or Edge :-1:, but loved on Windows the Chromium based Opera :sunglasses:, which sadly seems to have a lib issue on Linux and fails in respect to DRM. Yes, i read about and tested lib subfolders without any results other than messing up my file system. So if there is another Browser for Netflix and Youtube, it should do the trick without any su file massages.)

Thanks in advance for your hints. :+1:

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While I cannot help you with the audio issue, the chromium flatpak has all the DRM libraries by default. The package from the standard opensuse repos does not.

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@xm3t4i: Good point. I did not test that one yet. :thinking: I went for Linux coz i want to get away from Google and Microsoft as much as possible - not because of bad software but because of unauthorized and constant spying. So i am looking for Browsers with as less Google and Microsoft in it as anyhow possible, while still using DRM (where Google appears to have a monopole on it - hello, anti-trust people! :partying_face:) for watching Netflix.

Fixing somehow Firefox would be my favourite solution. :face_with_thermometer:

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have you tried installing firefox from different sources? If you installed it via zypper, try installing it as a flatpak and see if that works

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Try Vivaldi browser (based on Chromium).
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Just for the books: Fine since more than a month after having removed the ‘old’ Firefox sourced from the Suse Repository and installed the Firefox from Flatpak, which is of latest version and works fine including sound.

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