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I get chinese characters on my active tab as I'm using a website.

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This just started happening. I reinstalled firefox and it still happens.

This just started happening. I reinstalled firefox and it still happens.

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hello omarcat, some 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

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I read that some people think it's a virus.

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no worries, it's nothing malicious, but it is caused by this one addon which appears to have compatibility issues with firefox 34...

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I called McAfee and they are unaware of this problem.

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Valgt løsning

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I disabled the add-on, restarted Firefox. I enabled the add-on, restarted Firefox. Now everything is ok. I didn't have to uninstall the add-on.

Thank you for your help.

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I disabled my site advisor and the problem is gone