Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:38:55 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Chris O'Dell <odellcs04@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FireFox is beeping at me! a question Message-ID: <42BF206F.8040406@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <c1969e1505062611441fd238cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <c1969e1505062611441fd238cc@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris O'Dell wrote:
>here's the issue i'm having. i just installed a new video card and
>firefox has decided to start making weird beeping and almost hissing
>noises when i have an audio application running. for example, i use
>winamp and firefox with tabbed browsing and whenever i select another
>tab, it makes an annoying beep. do you have any suggestions and can
>you explain what you originally wrote?!? thanks for your help
>
>
If you just installed a new video card without changing Firefox in any
way, then I think the problem is not related to Firefox, but to your
hardware. Perhaps the video card interferes with the audio card in some
way. Someone might be able to help you with that if you can say what
the video and audio cards are. Especially your comment about hissing
makes this sound like something audio-card related. Can you try any
other applications which use your audio card? Play an audio CD, for
example?
[Actually, I'm only *sure* this is true for Mozilla, but given how
closely related it is to Firefox, I expect this to be true for it as well].
As to my original post. If you make Firefox from a port, it asks you
some questions about options. If you deliberately or accidentally (easy
to do) select the "Debugging" option, then Firefox will beep at you a
lot. It beeps every time it comes across a supposed "error", and it
seems to find one of those in just about everything you do. This was
how it was for me with Mozilla under 4.11, when I actually did want to
see debugging information. You can check if this is your problem by
looking in the file /var/db/ports/firefox/options. If it contains the line
WITHOUT_DEBUG=false
or
WITH_DEBUG=true
then this is why Firefox is beeping (not sure which line it would be,
but probably the latter). You can fix this by removing the file and
reinstalling Firefox being careful not to select the debugging option.
If you use portupgrade, you can do that with
portupgrade -f www/firefox
However, unless you installed or upgraded Firefox *after* you changed
the video card, then I don't think this is the answer you are looking for.
Hope that helps,
--Alex
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