Re: Prevent firefox from making noise

[Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:22:37PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:40:40AM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote:
> > Can one disable or prevent sound from playing from one specific application
> > (at the OS level)?  If not, then is there any way to simply prevent Firefox
> > from having sound abilities?  
> 
> I effectively have no sound from Firefox by running the pulseaudio version
> without running hal, so pulseaudio doesn't know how to start :-)

Twisted :-)

Another way might be to set up a null sink.  Then you'd have a very
inefficient, resource-intensive /dev/null for sound.  As long as your
other apps. don't use Pulse, then it'd give the desired effect.

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