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Strange symbols are showing up on my tabs.

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gaylet8
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For the last week or so, I am seeing strange symbols at the top of my page where the tabs are. Sometimes they go completely across the tabs so I can't see the tab name and sometimes they are on either side of the tab as shown in my screen shot. How do I get rid of these?

For the last week or so, I am seeing strange symbols at the top of my page where the tabs are. Sometimes they go completely across the tabs so I can't see the tab name and sometimes they are on either side of the tab as shown in my screen shot. How do I get rid of these?
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Try the next : disabled the add-on then close firefox and restart Firefox again. Then enable the add-on again, close firefox one more time and restart Firefox again. Any luck ?

thanks again

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ideato
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Hello gaylet8, the problem is mcafee site advisor extension, please try to disable or remove that extension and you are OK.

thank you

gaylet8
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I really don't want to uninstall Site Advisor. Is there any fix I can use instead?

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Try the next : disabled the add-on then close firefox and restart Firefox again. Then enable the add-on again, close firefox one more time and restart Firefox again. Any luck ?

thanks again

gaylet8
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That seems to have worked - so far. Thanks a bunch!