[CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

Sun Oct 18 00:08:49 UTC 2020
Jon Pruente <jpruente at riskanalytics.com>

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 3:38 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78,
> and
> FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers.  Is there some magic I need to do?
> As
> a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68.  My system is
> otherwise
> up-to-date.
>

Are you sure it's not the auto mute feature they introduced?

https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-04-firefox-66-prevent-auto-playing-video-audio.html