On Friday, 17 June 2022 09:55:17 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2022 07:35:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: > > > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to > > > stop working! > > > > Well, it may not be system-wide, but yes - you see why I took so long to > > find it! > > It is even more weird this add-on provides just a search engine! It's not > as if the add-on is related to a media player, or something you could > expect it might need to touch audio.
I assume it's an inadvertent error: overwriting something it shouldn't. Don't ask me what, though. > I tried it on a plasma desktop and I can replicate the problem. However, I > noticed if I go into Configure Audio Devices and select 'Analogue Stereo' > and then 'Analogue Stereo Duplex' back & forth, the audio starts playing > again. This is with a hard wired audio, no bluetooth. No BT here either; I gave up on that some time ago. > Any idea what the difference is between the various StartPage add-ons? I have noticed that the ordinary startpage has started behaving differently in recent versions. For instance, I searched for 'Best ...' once, and from then on, when I opened a tab and typed a B, that 'Best ...' appeared, in bold, right at the top. It couldn't be removed, even by deleting the add-on and rebooting. I won't be using that again. > Is StartPage to be trusted, anymore than all the rest mass surveillance > corporates? I don't know; is that what they do? Have you looked at https:// eu.startpage.com/ ? -- Regards, Peter.
