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When I open firefox I get pacman sounds in the background...

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I opened my firefox like normal and when I do, no matter what page i go to, i still get the pacman noises. There are no pop ups open and internet explorer seems to work fine.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

Today 5/21/10

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

I opened my firefox like normal and when I do, no matter what page i go to, i still get the pacman noises. There are no pop ups open and internet explorer seems to work fine. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Today 5/21/10 == == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

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Disable Cool Preview addon, restart firefox and you will be fine. Happy birthday Pacman. GTFO!

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Confirmed. Disabling 'Cool Previews' solves it!

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Damn I use Cool Previews all the time. I'm sure they're scrambling to fix it though this will not be helping them.

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Me too! I thought it was just me!

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Thanks for the suggestion - I was just about to throw the machine thru the window

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deffinittley Cool Preview. I disabled that and it stopped. you may try changing the search bar from google to another.

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Disable or remove Cool Previews.

Oh yeah, and read other posts! This fix has been posted at least 20 times already!!!

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i uninstalled cool previews and it went away

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Damn definitely should not have clicked "send email when a response has been made."

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I turned off Cool Previews to get it to stop, but I want it back! Please fix it!

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Uninstall

  1. Go to your Firefox browser menu bar.
  2. Click on Tools > Add-Ons > Extensions, and then select CoolPreviews"
  3. Click "uninstall".
  4. Exit your Firefox browser completely.
  5. CoolPreviews will no longer be installed when you reopen your Firefox browser
     NOTE: If you are using a Mozilla-based browser other than Firefox, your browser may not have installation and uninstallation procedures under Tools > Add-ons. In such case, please kindly refer to the Mozilla website for instructions.
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This noise is really getting on my t!ts. Is there a way to mute firefox without muting the computer?

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what a stupid add-on, it happened to me. Poor business model, piss off your customers until they get rid of your software.

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cuz of the extension called CoolPreviews.Look here:CoolPreviews problem

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It was google's new doodle.. celebrating pac-man's 30th anniversary . http://cybergyaan.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-plays-pacman.html

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Thank god the Cool Previews add-on was the only problem... i nearly threw my tower out the window...

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I disabled the Shockwave Flash plugin, and it stopped.... Hope it helps

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Disable CoolPreview addon!

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Please advise how to shut this noise up. Scary when google decides to play a little pacman game it affects every page on firefox when I never even accessed google today...

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where do you find the Add-Ons to remove them?

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