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I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 and using Firefox 76.0.1 as my Web browser.

For some reason, the audio on certain Web sites comes through as a garbled, fuzzy, unintelligible mess. This does not happen on every site; I can watch videos on YouTube fine all day long, but any video on Twitter is unwatchable. System audio—Clementine, Rhythmbox, Skype, VLC, etc.—is all fine.

For example, here is a recording of how this video sounds on my computer.

  • I've tried headphones, but it made no difference
  • I've run through every configuration within Sound Settings - none made a difference
  • I've tried Firefox in safe mode but the issue persists, so it's not my extensions
  • I've tried on another computer but the issue persists, so I don't think it's hardware-related
  • I've tried Chromium and the video sounds fine, so I think it must be a Firefox issue
  • I don't have any speech-dispatcher processes running (per this answer)
  • I've disabled media.webspeech.synth (per this answer)
  • Unlike a lot of similar issue reports (e.g., this one) this issue does not go away with time and happens every single time for certain sites (but never for others)
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    I too have tried everything you have, to no avail. This appears to be a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1906741 – James W. Dec 26 '20 at 07:21

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