Does the problem still happen in Troubleshoot Mode?
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Yes, it does happen in Troubleshoot Mode. And based on the article you sent, it does mean it's a Firefox issue, not a extension one
Does it also still happen in fresh profile? It will be like a factory-reset Firefox (except that you can go back to your current profile), so then it definitely wouldn't have anything to do with your Firefox configuration.
Creating a new profile, as suggested, seems to solve the issue for my main profile. That's interesting, cause I think it shouldn't solve the issue at all, once I did not change anything at the main profile
Hmm, yeah, it is a bit surprising to me, too, especially for an audio issue, but it's always possible that you had some weird configuration values in about:config for historic reasons and now some new code, that came in with a Firefox update, isn't working with that configuration.
Either way, it happens often enough that Mozilla has a troubleshooting routine for it, too, namely refreshing your profile.
If I remember correctly, it places your old profile data into a folder in your Desktop folder. But you can also separately backup your profile by closing Firefox and then copying ~/.mozilla/firefox/ onto an external hard drive or such.
I didn't even know that there was a troubleshoot mode. I'll try and come back here