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why are there chinese characters at the top of my firefox screen?

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on the active tab I get Chinese characters floating a little above the tab name. It just started yesterday after they did an update. How do I fix it?

on the active tab I get Chinese characters floating a little above the tab name. It just started yesterday after they did an update. How do I fix it?

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hello kkgregc, other affected users tied the issue to the mcafee site advisor extension - please try to disable or remove that in case you have it present.

http://service.mcafee.com/faqdocument.aspx?id=TS100162