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When I turn on Firefox, I hear a loud siren sound. But when i turn on IE Explorer I do not

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When I first turned on Firefox today I heard a loud siren sound. I turned it off and the sound stopped. If I used IE Explorer there was no siren sound. The siren sound is on constantly when firefox is on. The firefox browser works normally except for the siren sound.


This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== When I first turned it on today.

When I first turned on Firefox today I heard a loud siren sound. I turned it off and the sound stopped. If I used IE Explorer there was no siren sound. The siren sound is on constantly when firefox is on. The firefox browser works normally except for the siren sound. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == When I first turned it on today.

Chosen solution

Disable Cooliris and Cool Previews Go to tools-Addons-Extensions and disable the above 2 items, I got help on the Firefox forum and it worked for me By the way- today is the 30 birthday of PACMAN!

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I hope this is resolved soon. Glad that it isn't anything specific that I did. Misery loves company I guess. Please post any solutions that you find. Thanks. Have a great weekend!

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Suluhisho teule

Disable Cooliris and Cool Previews Go to tools-Addons-Extensions and disable the above 2 items, I got help on the Firefox forum and it worked for me By the way- today is the 30 birthday of PACMAN!