When I start Firefox, the Pacman music starts, and I can't stop it.
Starting this morning, when I start Firefox, the Pacman game music starts playing. It goes continuously, and I can't stop it. I saw a URL (that I didn't go to) that led to the Pacman file. Somehoe the browser went there and downloaded something. I dont have the URL anymore as I (stupidly) cleared my history.
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
== This morning, May 21.
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- -NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Default Plug-in
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 8.2.2
- Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
More Information
Java Console 6.0.16 true
AVG Safe Search 9.0.0.812 true {3f963a5b-e555-4543-90e2-c3908898db71}
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How do we fix this?
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Yep, me too!
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Please make it stop!
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Same here
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Stop it! Please.
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Me too
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Same problem. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, Firefox 3.6.3... but my volume control on the toolbar is also missing.
???
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me too
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Seems to be related to Google and Packman's 30th birthday, see this link: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/678159?
disabling CoolPreviews or Shockwave plugins solve this.
Google is doing a promotion for the 30th anniversary of Pacman, you can play a Pacman game by visiting http://www.google.com
To get a non-sound page you can use, http://www.google.com/firefox till Google switches back to their normal page. Usually these sorts of logo changes last no more than a day.
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Disable cool iris previews add on, and the music will stop
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Google --"pacman music" firefox-- people are complaining all over the web...
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Same problem today for me also, sounds like a siren is blowing every time I open firefox
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Every time I start firefox, pacman is playing in the background. VERY ANNOYING!!
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Its true that google is celebrating pacman's 30th birthday n yeah its a damn annoying surprise. Disabling plugins wont help, change ur default home page for a day, or just log into google.com and u can actually play the game and have a blast!!
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It helps for some people to turn off cool previews - but net here:(
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yes, when I disabled cool previews from my addon list, packman music stopped
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disable shockwaveflash plugin. then re-enable it.
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Deactivating the Shockwave Flash Plugin works. Very annoying...
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If you have coolpreview, enter "options of coolpreview" then go to the"Search" Tab and disable "Google search" and "Google Images" from the list of the right, that should do.