Random 'click' sound effect playing in Chrome - Mac or Chrome sound?

Anyone else having this? It started for me on Thursday and I can't for the life of me imagine what it is or what it might be doing - might it be a sound on Chrome that came without warning with the latest automatic update or a Mac sound that I accidentally turned on? If so, where might the file be? I recently deleted all the alert and user interface sound files cos I didn't want them anymore, so I'm pretty baffled. (I'm on OS X 10.7.5)

With Flash Player 10.2 the new StageVideo API became available. Using this new API enables hardware accelerated video rendering, boosting video performance and reducing CPU usage.
In the latest OSMF builds (starting with the OSMF 1.6 Sprint 1 build) support for the StageVideo is enabled by default.
What you've experienced it's a known limitation of using OSMF or SMP in a Flex application, where the video is shown behind all the Flex components.
To make your video visible, you have to set backgroundAlpha=”0″ for your mx:Application or other flex containers of your video.
Alternatively, if you don't want the performance boost you get from using StageVideo, you can disable it and your app should work as expected.
Here's how you do that: OSMFSettings.enableStageVideo = false;
As for your latest post, Chrome has it own version of Flash Player bundled with the browser and it manages the updates by itself.
I suspect you still have 10.2 installed in chrome. Use Chrome to visit this link to learn what version of Flash Player it's using: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
I hope this helps!

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