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Siren sounds when Firefox is open. How do I disable it? How did I get it?

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When I open Firefox, I get some game music than a siren sound that won't quit.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I opened Firefoxthis AM

When I open Firefox, I get some game music than a siren sound that won't quit. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I opened Firefoxthis AM

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Check out http://www...google.ca/. Celebrating Pac-Man.

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i have the same problem :(

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I disabled "Cool preview" - Silence. But I think it comes from google..*arggll*

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Hey,guys!!! Thank you very much.I thought I'll go crazy with this sound.Sheila's solution worked fgor me... THANK YOUUUU!!!

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Same thing here. Started about 2 hours ago. Will try some of the suggested solutions.

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The CoolPreview add-on in Firefox is the culprit. Uninstall this add-on from Firefox will solve the problem. and by the way, today is PACman 30'th birthday. I believe it's something related to this issue.

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OK Uninstalled Cool Iris Preview. So far, so good. Thanks all!

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Disabling Cool Previews worked for me. Thanks for the info. The sound is most annoying

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Im having same issue wtf is this how do u turn it off its annoying and this is supposed to be a pleasant experience

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Unistall CoolPreviews plugin.

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Is it possible that google will damage cool previews image? I think we should stop using google instead of disabling/unistalling cool preview. But that is not possible or are other alternatives - I don´t think so.

Florian from gemany.

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Me too! Doesn't happen with the same pages loaded in Safari.

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Same problem here.

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Switch off CoolPreviews

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I have the same problem and started today 05/21/2010

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Flashblock fixes it

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Problem started on May 21, 2010 at 1700

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Uninstalling Cool Previews solved the problem. Thanks.

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I had the same issue and did as ross said, added the flashblock option, and it is no longer there.

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