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a weird sound happens when I sign on to Facebook

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I have a 2009 Macbook Pro and am using FF 3.6.13.

Everytime I sign on/off to Facebook or Google a weird lazer-gun sound happens.

This doesn't happen with any of the other major browsers I have.

It only happens with Facebook and any Google account.

With Google as I sign off the username/password fields automatically fill with "MyUsername" and the dots (who knows what password is being entered!).

I've tried deleting all cookies and restarting FF and it still does this.

I have a 2009 Macbook Pro and am using FF 3.6.13. Everytime I sign on/off to Facebook or Google a weird lazer-gun sound happens. This doesn't happen with any of the other major browsers I have. It only happens with Facebook and any Google account. With Google as I sign off the username/password fields automatically fill with "MyUsername" and the dots (who knows what password is being entered!). I've tried deleting all cookies and restarting FF and it still does this.

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To clarify, when I hear the lazer-gun sound it automatically fills in the user/pass fields on sign off with the image I uploaded. On sign on it just makes the sound but signs me on to my account as normal.

With Facebook it just makes the lazer-gun sound but does not do what the Google example I uploaded shows.

The lazer-gun sound is like a lazer-tag gun sound.

I suspect there is some bug in my browswer, but it only affects Facebook and any Google account that I have in the manner I describe.

How would I get rid of these?

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The problem was a Form Autofill addon. I deleted it from my FF addons. It's called Autofill Forms. It has the little lighting bolt icon.

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).

  • Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.

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