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I don't get sound with Safari. iTunes and Firefox are fine. I've check earlier posts on this topic and checked out one suggestions---check settings on Audio MIDI Setup.app. They are as the thread said they should be. Which is not surprising given than I'm able to get sound with other apps.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of this exercise is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account. Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. For instructions, launch the System Preferences application, select Help from the menu bar, and enter “Set up a guest account” (without the quotes) in the search box. Don't use the Safari-only Guest login created by "Find My Mac."
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your personal files or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem(s)?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault in Mac OS X 10.7 or later, then you can’t enable the Guest account. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
No luck. All the way through Step 2 and replacing the items removed.
Whatever this is, it just doesn't want to give up.
I don't know if it's relevant or not, but after I moved back the five items I moved out in Step 2, I did not have to import my bookmarks or reinstall my extensions. (But perhaps you meant that that would be necessary only if sound was restored on removing the items.)
I appreciate your sticking with me on this. Hope you haven't run out of options.
Sincerely,
Let's go back to your message timestamped 6:47 AM. You wrote that you didn't find the following item, among others:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
Please confirm. If that item doesn't exist, something is wrong with your home folder.
Affirmative. ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari does not exist on my system.
I don't get sound with Safari. iTunes and Firefox are fine
Eric...
From your Safari menu bar top of your screen click Safari. From the drop down menu click Preferences then select the Extensions tab.
If you have any installed, turn that OFF, quit then relaunch Safari to test sound.
Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have a wrong owner. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy — do not type — all of the next line into the Terminal window, then press return:
find . $TMPDIR.. -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.
If any personal information appears in the output, edit before posting, but don’t remove the context.
One other thing. Are you having the problem with all websites, or only some? If only some, which ones?
My assumption was everywhere. But I checked. It seems to be only Last.FM.
Then it's an issue with that site. I've never used it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had a user-specific volume setting, as YouTube does. Check.
I'm embarrassed. Poking around on the Last.FM website I discovered a "mute" button. When I clicked it I got sound. I guess I muted it unknowingly.
My apologies. Had you put me through all those hoops when there was no problem all along.
Thanks for going to such lengths. One of the great things about the Mac environment is the help available on the forums. Prompt and knowledgeable. I've had actual problems and only once had to call the company: When my system wouldn't boot and I couldn't get to the forums.
Sincerely,
Eric Weir
I had the same problem, except just figured out that for me it was the DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 plugin that caused the problem.
I posted this because I thought it could be helpful to someone else.
I just wanted to put a message up to say that I have been having odd problems with Google doodles not playing any sound. Today is Halloween and there is an interactive Google doodle with ghosts, cats, crows, mummies and the like. I click on the crow and it's beak opens and closes, but no sound comes out.
I opened Opera, load the same Google doodle and I get the sound.
Hmm...
Turning off my Safari Extensions one by one then reloading the page brings me to 'Click To Flash'. With this off after reloading the page I do indeed get sound. I've since turned 'Click To Flash' back on, reloaded the page and then right clicked the Google doodle, there is a menu option of 'Allow Flash on Domain' after selecting this I can get the sound as it should be.
Just thought this might possibly help someone (probably me next time it happens) track down their no sound in Safari issues.
Shutting off the extensions in Safari Preferences...this worked for me. Thanks.
I'm having the same problem and that's the only extention I have. What did you do please, Uninstall?
Thank you!
I have this problem every now and then:
In that case i just use Firefox!
Thank you Apple! 😁😉
No sound from Safari
