Mark Twain wrote:
Ok, I was just on MSN reading another story
when music just started playing from no where!
Just like it did when I was on eBay. There were
no-pops ups it just starts playing from I don't
know where? Again, I had nothing else opened.

Also, in relation to the slowness of connecting
to pages. I've literally seen it say it was
'handshaking' at the bottom of the screen while
it was trying to connect. I haven't seen that since
modems!

All this is not right.


Thoughts/suggestions,
Robert


These problems aren't exactly easy to fix.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1055864

In the last section of the thread, one commenter thinks
there is a "newtab" setting that is setting up the
errant piece of software causing you grief. I can't
tell from the very last post though, how the original
poster fixed it.

In the example, plugin-container runs because it's
a piece of software which "isolates" plugins from the
main Firefox process. And the design of Firefox has
changed, from FF53 to FF57, so some people might
end up being interested in what version you're running.

FF57 (Quantum) can still have audio shenanigans, as FF57
likely supports some set of HTML5 video/audio standards,
as well as Adobe Flash still working in some capacity.
So there are still lots of things to be shoving into
plugin-containers, still lots of things to play rude
music when you don't want it. Lots of regular plugins,
no longer work on Quantum, but the trick being played
on you right now, will be engineered to work with
just about every Firefox version.

In FF57, your copy of QuickTime plugin should stop
working. And that's about the only positive thing
we can say about FF57.

The audio icon in the OS, has sliders per process.
But that isn't a solution to any sort of problem.
If you're viewing video on a page, while unexpected
music is also playing, there won't be a slider for
each thread. There may be a plugin to provide that
level of resolution, but then it would depend on the
version of Firefox, as to whether it would still
work. And managing audio problems that way is
stupid anyway - you need to remove the software
that has added something to "newtab". At a guess.

Paul