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My Title Bar is suddenly appearing in Chinese characters, what happened (and how do I fix it)?

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AnonymousUser
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The title bar on my browser is now appearing with some type of chinese characters. Nothing else has changed, but I would like to know what happended, why, and how to return my system to normal

The title bar on my browser is now appearing with some type of chinese characters. Nothing else has changed, but I would like to know what happended, why, and how to return my system to normal

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Morbus
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Hello Kevin.

I don't know which one, but a specific plugin is known to cause this issue. I think it's called "Real Media Recording Suite" or something... To fix your problem, do this:

  1. go into Tools > Add-ons > Plugins;
  2. disable all plugins;
  3. restart Firefox;
  4. go into Tools > Add-ons > Plugins;
  5. enable all plugins (well, the ones you disabled in point 2, anyway);
  6. restart Firefox.

That should do it.

cor-el
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That issue is caused by an extension (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and not by a plugin.

If you see CJK (Chinese/Japanese) characters on the Firefox title bar or the Windows Taskbar then that can happen if Firefox switches to UTF-16 encoding for some reason.

The RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) has been reported to cause that issue.

Be sure not to get confused with the RealPlayer plugin (Tools > Add-ons > Plugins) that plays media files. The extension adds some extra features like saving media files.

You can disable/remove the RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension in the RealPlayer Preferences (RealPlayer: Tools > Preferences > Download & Recording)

See also Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems