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How do I pick and choose which browser sounds to play?

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Today my browser started making this sound, which sounds like a sci-fi laser gun, which I'd like to turn off without having to mute ALL browser sounds. How do I do this? I have already determined that this is caused by Firefox and is NOT a Windows event sound.

Today my browser started making this sound, which sounds like a sci-fi laser gun, which I'd like to turn off without having to mute ALL browser sounds. How do I do this? I have already determined that this is caused by Firefox and is NOT a Windows event sound.

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FIGURED IT OUT!!!

AutoFill 3.6 was the culprit -- there's a sound effects box that can be unchecked!

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hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

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That seems to have stopped the noise, but how do I determine which addon is causing it?

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you'd have to disable all the extensions and re-enable them one-by-one or in larger batches (a restart of firefox might be necessary after each step) until you find the culprit...

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I think I may just have to mute Firefox, then. It's more of an annoyance than a problem.

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Thank you for your help nevertheless :-)

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do you have so many of them? you can also disable halve of them & narrow them down this way to speed up the process.

or you could go to firefox > help > troubleshooting information, copy the list of your extensions from there & paste them into a reply on the forum here - then maybe we or other affected users can find similarities or likely candidates...

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That 'laser' sound is probably from NoScript.

Open NoScript Options > Notifications -> Audio feedback when scripts are blocked = un-check that preference

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OK, if you think that'll help...

The instances I've been using to test it are opening up my wordpress admin, google reader, and links from a Locobuy e-mail.

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Chosen Solution

FIGURED IT OUT!!!

AutoFill 3.6 was the culprit -- there's a sound effects box that can be unchecked!

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thank you for reporting back with your findings.