Audio becomes crackly after visiting some websites
I am using Mozilla Firefox for Linux Mint, version mint-001 - 1.0, though I have had this same problem for many versions of Firefox on Linux on this particular computer. When visiting duolingo.com and doing the exercises, the sound is incredibly choppy, as if it is extremely low bitrate. What's more, this also corrupts the sound on other websites, for example, bandcamp.com. If I start up Firefox and visit bandcamp.com, the audio is fine, but once I visit duolingo.com it corrupts the sound on bandcamp.com and other sites until I restart Firefox. I suspect this is a driver issue. I have tried in troubleshooting mode, with a different profile etc.
System Info:
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-104-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine: Type: Desktop System: AlphaSync product: 1145569 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450M-A II v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 3002 date: 03/10/2021
CPU: Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 114982
Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2195 2: 2196 3: 2196
4: 2195 5: 2192 6: 2192 7: 2185 8: 2188 9: 2196 10: 2196 11: 2192 12: 2190 13: 2191
14: 2195 15: 2196 16: 2196
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 470.103.01 bus ID: 08:00.0
chip ID: 10de:2484
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz, 2560x1440~100Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.103.01
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.1
chip ID: 10de:228b
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 0a:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-104-generic
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 07:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 458.07 GiB (49.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition: ID-1: / size: 427.10 GiB used: 229.04 GiB (53.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: swap-1 size: 30.83 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 35.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 47 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https: //mirror.cov.ukservers.com/linuxmint una main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info: Processes: 330 Uptime: 3h 39m Memory: 31.33 GiB used: 2.22 GiB (7.1%) Init: systemd
v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.4.0 alt: 10/9 Client: Unknown python3.8 client
inxi: 3.0.38
Wšykne wótegrona (1)
I cannot replicate the issue and duolingo is fun. Tried both sites with Nightly and 98.0 and had no issues with sound. Try downloading another copy of Firefox, run it from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
I would try a live stick with another OS to test. https://get.opensuse.org/leap/
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220311 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.16.11-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4600