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I am getting overlapping tabs and foreign language symbols at the top of my screen. Why?

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In the last couple of days, I have begun to get random foreign language characters at the top of my screen, in both the tabs row and the address bar. At the same time, the tabs at the top overlap each other and are hard to see clearly. Any ideas why and how to correct? Can send screen capture of the problem, if it would help.

In the last couple of days, I have begun to get random foreign language characters at the top of my screen, in both the tabs row and the address bar. At the same time, the tabs at the top overlap each other and are hard to see clearly. Any ideas why and how to correct? Can send screen capture of the problem, if it would help.

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The McAfee SiteAdvisor extension has been reported to cause this issue, so you can disable this extension to check this.

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The McAfee SiteAdvisor extension has been reported to cause this issue, so you can disable this extension to check this.