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[Support] Firefox severly distorting the voice of videos on Linux

edit: It turns out it was because I had made a minor change in my firefox config to make my browser cosplay as an edge browser (so I can use their new search AI), it's because of that minor change that I am facing this problem. Revert back and everything works out.

I have had this problem for a few days now, Firefox has been distorting the voice of videos for a good while now and I don't know the cause of the problem, it's unlikely the extensions are doing it because I tried opening a random reddit video on a private tab and it didn't work out either. Any help regarding this would be helpful!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskThe_Donald/comments/14m3kyu/comedians_dana_carvey_david_spade_go_in_on_dr/

This is the original video, again, I am not into the politics of it, but this video was instantly available and I recorded it.

Here is what I heard: https://imgur.com/a/kYxyBvV

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  • That's certainly a huge improvement IMO

    🤣

    Nobody can help because nobody knows what software you're running.

    To check Firefox, you go to about:profiles and create/test a new one.

    To fix your Operating System you go to your Operating System FORUM and put in a well formatted request for assistance.

    Some Firefox people are also over at https://fedia.io/m/firefox so go try there.

    FYI: I opened your link and it plays perfectly in Firefox.

    • edit: It turns out it was because I had made a minor change in my firefox config to make my browser cosplay as an edge browser (so I can use their new search AI), it's because of that minor change that I am facing this problem. Revert back and everything works out.

  • If you are using a user agent switcher, reset it to the default / real browser. That is the sole cause of distorted audio I have personally experienced anyway, and it sounded exactly like your link until I set it back.

    I opened the link in a private tab, set the user agent to

    long ua string

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 uacq

    and when I refreshed the tab the audio was distorted. Hope this helps your investigation