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Boy, did that surprise the heck out of me. I never worry about keeping my speakers turned up when going to google.com
by Femur 16y ago
Boy, did that surprise the heck out of me. I never worry about keeping my speakers turned up when going to google.com
- mbrubeck 16y agoApparently this is overwhelming the Firefox support forums and chat lines: https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/678373 https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/678373
- grhino 16y agoCoolPreviews, an addon for Firefox, caused the PacMan music to play even when the user wasn't viewing google.com. They've released an update that fixes the issue. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207/
- jacquesm 16y agoBad move by google, really. Start on a button click is one thing but auto-starting something that makes a bunch of noise on a page that has always been totally silent is really dumb.
- studer 16y agoGoogle doesn't autostart anything, it's a FireFox extension (Cool Previews) that loads the page in the background that causes the trouble. I suggest reading up on the real story before you start labeling things as "bad moves" and "really dumb".
- follower 16y agoActually, the sound does autostart when you load the page. But the playing sound in the background issue is related to the extension.
- jacquesm 16y agoMy browser is 'clean', there are no extensions or plug-ins installed besides the 'closed tabs button' and greasemonkey. Welcome to HN by the way.