Firefox/LJ tech question

All of a sudden - as in the last three days or so - every time I try to play an embedded video, the sound will not play. The sound won't even play if I jump over to YouTube to try to play the thing directly. As long as a window with an embedded vid is open, sound does not play, period.

If I restart the browser with the embedded vid, sound still does not play.

If I reboot the computer, but a tab with an embedded vid is open, sound does not play.

I have to reboot the computer *without* an embedded vid and go directly to YouTube to get videos to play with sound. (At which point, any video, including embedded ones, play properly.)

WTF? I mean, for the moment I have no real problem changing my home page to "Les Misbarak" but still! (And if I am going to have to do this for a while, does anyone have any really, really short YouTube recommendations? Something in the realm of about 10 seconds? ETA: Oh, look, 38 seconds of the Dr. Who theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB0S7IJcEd0)

Anybody have any clues?

Lost in Ainsworth: A Review of The Doomwood Curse

WHO DAILY: lj user="neadods"> reviews a href="http://neadods.livejournal.com/736391.html">Big Finish's The Doomwood Curse


Jacqueline Rayner has been a favorite New Who writer since Winner Takes All, and she has returned to the Doctor Who monthly series with her fourth Sixth Doctor story, The Doomwood Curse.

Rayner has a fondness for Six, having written 100, The Marion Conspiracy, and the cracktastic Doctor Who and the Pirates for him. ( Doomwood isn't quite as crackalicious as Pirates - but it's pretty darn close. )

The Doomwood Curse is fabulous fun. Think of it as Northanger Abbey... with a TARDIS.