On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Samuel Baldwin<recursive.forest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 3.5, every time I pause my music in > mpd I can't start it again so long as firefox is still running. I have > to kill firefox (literally kill; I tell it to quit, but the process > never dies, so I have to kill it by hand) to be able to play music > again. Sometimes I'd have this happen if I had a flash video with > sound open or something in earlier versions, but now it happens even > if I don't have any pages with flash open. If you haven't yet, try disabling all snd-*-oss alsa modules. This made a major improvement for me. Also, thought I should mention that Gmail does indeed use flash for some of its features. It may be loading flash without you realizing it. Cheers, Mike