I can add some information to this bug (or what seems to be a bunch of related audio bugs).
In my case it is related to my sound card, switching to and from the soundcard audio causes the bug to appear and disappear. Line-Out - Built-in Audio : No bug Digital Output (S/PDIF) - EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series] : Occasionally garbled audio I've added more info about my hardware devices and drivers: lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) 03:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series] (rev 04) sudo lshw -C sound *-multimedia description: Audio device product: GP102 HDMI Audio Controller vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0.1 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1 version: a1 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0 resources: irq:17 memory:fb080000-fb083fff *-usb description: Audio device product: HD Webcam C615 vendor: Logitech, Inc. physical id: 2 bus info: usb@1:1.2 version: 0.11 serial: 27A1DFD0 capabilities: usb-2.00 audio-control configuration: driver=uvcvideo maxpower=500mA speed=480Mbit/s *-multimedia description: Audio device product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1b bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 version: 05 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0 resources: irq:34 memory:f9300000-f9303fff *-multimedia description: Audio device product: EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series] vendor: Creative Labs physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 version: 04 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=snd_ctxfi latency=0 resources: irq:17 memory:f9200000-f920ffff memory:f9000000-f91fffff memory:f8000000-f8ffffff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1906741 Title: Firefox sometimes causes garbled audio To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1906741/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs