Play PacMan at google.com Now.

Re:Play PacMan at google.com Now. by Femur on Friday May 21, 2010 @11:10AM (#1367545)

Boy, did that surprise the heck out of me. I never worry about keeping my speakers turned up when going to google.com

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Re:Play PacMan at google.com Now. by mbrubeck on Friday May 21, 2010 @03:00PM (#1368383)

Apparently this is overwhelming the Firefox support forums and chat lines:

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/678373

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Re:Play PacMan at google.com Now. by grhino on Friday May 21, 2010 @04:54PM (#1368819)

CoolPreviews, 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/

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Re:Play PacMan at google.com Now. by jacquesm on Friday May 21, 2010 @07:08PM (#1369263)

Bad 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.

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Re:Play PacMan at google.com Now. by studer on Friday May 21, 2010 @11:22PM (#1369703)

Google 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".

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Re:Play PacMan at google.com Now. by follower on Saturday May 22, 2010 @02:27AM (#1369898)

Actually, the sound does autostart when you load the page. But the playing sound in the background issue is related to the extension.

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Re:Play PacMan at google.com Now. by jacquesm on Saturday May 22, 2010 @10:12AM (#1370325)

My browser is 'clean', there are no extensions or plug-ins installed besides the 'closed tabs button' and greasemonkey.

Welcome to HN by the way.

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