My Title Bar is suddenly appearing in Chinese characters, what happened (and how do I fix it)?
The title bar on my browser is now appearing with some type of chinese characters. Nothing else has changed, but I would like to know what happended, why, and how to return my system to normal
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Hello Kevin.
I don't know which one, but a specific plugin is known to cause this issue. I think it's called "Real Media Recording Suite" or something... To fix your problem, do this:
- go into Tools > Add-ons > Plugins;
- disable all plugins;
- restart Firefox;
- go into Tools > Add-ons > Plugins;
- enable all plugins (well, the ones you disabled in point 2, anyway);
- restart Firefox.
That should do it.
That issue is caused by an extension (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and not by a plugin.
If you see CJK (Chinese/Japanese) characters on the Firefox title bar or the Windows Taskbar then that can happen if Firefox switches to UTF-16 encoding for some reason.
The RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) has been reported to cause that issue.
Be sure not to get confused with the RealPlayer plugin (Tools > Add-ons > Plugins) that plays media files. The extension adds some extra features like saving media files.
You can disable/remove the RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension in the RealPlayer Preferences (RealPlayer: Tools > Preferences > Download & Recording)
See also Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems