On Thu, 19 May 2016 09:52:48 +0200 Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> wrote:
> Long answer: > > By default (with flat-volumes = yes) if an application increases > the volume then Pulseaudio will increase the master system volume > as well. > > In your case, if a web page increases the volume to 100% the system > volume will also be set to 100%. > > Please refer to these links for more information: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118974 > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#daemon.conf > Pretty odd to see this as the default behaviour (you can be totally sure that I did not modify the PulseAudio settings). And from what I can tell... http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=116252 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2rjiaa/horrible_decisions_flat_ volumes_in_pulseaudio_a/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=541538 ...I am not the only one unhappy with this. Why is this the default setting? It's actually a risk for users' health! Thank you for pointing out this odd situation. At least I can keep *my* ears safe.