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Siren sounds when Firefox is open. How do I disable it? How did I get it?

When I open Firefox, I get some game music than a siren sound that won't quit.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I opened Firefoxthis AM

When I open Firefox, I get some game music than a siren sound that won't quit. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I opened Firefoxthis AM

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Check out http://www...google.ca/. Celebrating Pac-Man.

i have the same problem :(

I disabled "Cool preview" - Silence. But I think it comes from google..*arggll*

Hey,guys!!! Thank you very much.I thought I'll go crazy with this sound.Sheila's solution worked fgor me... THANK YOUUUU!!!

Same thing here. Started about 2 hours ago. Will try some of the suggested solutions.

The CoolPreview add-on in Firefox is the culprit. Uninstall this add-on from Firefox will solve the problem. and by the way, today is PACman 30'th birthday. I believe it's something related to this issue.

OK Uninstalled Cool Iris Preview. So far, so good. Thanks all!

Disabling Cool Previews worked for me. Thanks for the info. The sound is most annoying

Im having same issue wtf is this how do u turn it off its annoying and this is supposed to be a pleasant experience

Unistall CoolPreviews plugin.

Is it possible that google will damage cool previews image? I think we should stop using google instead of disabling/unistalling cool preview. But that is not possible or are other alternatives - I don´t think so.

Florian from gemany.

Me too! Doesn't happen with the same pages loaded in Safari.

Same problem here.

Switch off CoolPreviews

I have the same problem and started today 05/21/2010

Flashblock fixes it

Problem started on May 21, 2010 at 1700

Uninstalling Cool Previews solved the problem. Thanks.

I had the same issue and did as ross said, added the flashblock option, and it is no longer there.

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