I am using ALSA and Icecat. When I play any html5 audio/video it works, but the next time i click on another audio/video link I lose sound.

I am using Parabola (a fork of archlinux), Icecat 31.4 and ALSA
Icecat and firefox seem to hold onto the soundcard when I click on a new html5 audio/video link in the same tab. The next video/audio element loses sound. If I wait 10 seconds and click back to the start of the audio/video, the audio returns. I often get cpu spikes for icecat when it happens.
I have tried this with both motherboard and usb sound and I get the same problem. I have disabled extensions (addons) in Icecat, deleted profiles, reinstalled the browser and even installed firefox from the AUR and it still occurs.
I have disable gstreamer in about:config and restarted and it still occurs.
My .asoundrc is this:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "hw:0,0"
All my other audio applications work. I have noticed that if I use pulseaudio it fixes it, but it should work without anyway, like it used to. I think something happened after an update, but I'm not sure.
Any help would be appreciated. I know it's not a big problem, but it's really frustrating and I've had it for ages. I even switched browsers to get away from it.

*nerding out*
I am not an expert in this and if we get stuck I have found a mailing list for the alsa project that can be contacted: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Mailing-lists
Gstreamer is disabled in Firefox as well as the os?
Since you are seeing issues with ogg files and moving video/audio combination I started to dig into file formats {sox http://sox.sourceforge.net/soxformat.html}
For ogg would the file format affect the "raw"?
defaults.pcm.file_format "raw"
Updated libraries
alsa-lib-1.0.6-8.FC3
alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
No no, here:
http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/cookbook_27.html#SEC377
Is the OGG cpu intensive for your alsa architecture? [http://alsa.opensrc.org/Ogg]
Troubleshooting sound on Linux to narrow down the issue: [http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/sound/sound_troubleshooting.htm#the_steve_litt_diagnostic_tools]
References: [http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Minivosc]
[http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/sound/sound_troubleshooting.htm#the_steve_litt_diagnostic_tools]
I am sorry, this is where I can no longer help. Please seek the guidance of the Linux forums or that alsa mailing list.

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