Each time I play with a new distro I always have problem with sound in flash. In openSUSE it was a matter of creation of file ~/.asoundrc with some standard config text inside. In Fedora and Ubuntu I always had to turn off all devices and leave only my USB headphones in pavucontrol (I use only USB headphones to listen music).
Now it is time to play with Debian. Guess what? There is no sound in flash in Debian as well 
. At the same time, I can perfectly play music in Juk and system sounds work for me. In order to make sound of flash to work one has to … create file in your home directory called .asoundrc with the following content:
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
This solution came out by goolging and reading this very useful article: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=12497
How long are you interesting in Linux? It seems in university you were a microsoft adherent
Great, thanks it worked for me, using debian squeezee pulseaudio, no sound in any browser from flash.
Thanks again
Thanks a lot, it helped!
Thank you!! I always run into a problem with flash too, and for some reason could not find anything for debian for ages. You’re the best!
wow. moer than one year later, this still works.
I recently updated to Iceweasel 13 and the sound stopped working. After hours of google I found this perfect and simple fix.
Thank you for the assistance.
We should propagate this forum post to make sure it popups quickier in google searches than a few hours
Thanks a lot for bringing this fix to my attention. For the most part Squeeze has been very stable, so when things do go wrong it frustrates me immensely. At least it was an easy enough fix.
Squeeze has never been stable for me enough
I got all over the time same bugs in kernel and in KDE for the last 1 year … Seems like the stable release is indeed very very slow on bugfixes …
I have to admit, it’s not quite as rock-solid as I had expected – I’ve had trouble with the default kernel doing an oops every time I try to “Safely Revove” an NTFS drive in GNOME, so I’ve had to use the backported kernel. I’ve also suffered from that leap-second issue a few times – which is frustrating. Also, I find the backported LibreOffice sometimes doesn’t play nice when I have many applications open. On the plus side, application crashes are increadibly rare (even LibreOffice has only crashed a few times), and it is possibly the fastest system I’ve ever run on my PC (and I’ve run Arch and Slackware on this thing). As a further plus, I love the fact that you can have a system that is as much a mix of “tried-and-true” and of newer stuff as I want: I’m running backports of LibreOffice, Iceweasel 14, and Linux 3.2 – while the rest of my system is standard Squeeze.
well.. what you could expect from debian?
it’s mostly used on servers, it’s not really suitable for desktops at all..
for desktops you should use either ubuntu or archlinux or mint..
I am afraid that Ubuntu will suffer from the same problems when having setup with multiple multimedia devices … Mint has been always working for me fine in this scenario, although I am not that much into MATE desktop.
Thank you very much!
it helped me.
I’m using Debian Squeeze
Thanks a lot.
I was searching for resolution of this issue over a week. And I’ve tried many combinations inside .asoundrc file, but none of them works.
I’m using OpenSUSE 12.2 and default configuration inside .asoundrc doesn’t help. But after setting everything to use pulse audio, it works!!!
Thanks!! 2013, and it still works!
Thanks! April 2013
Using Debian Squeeze
The audio now works in Chromium, Midori, and Iceweasel.