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Whenever Firefox loads, it plays the audio from a YouTube video I watched yesterday (but which is not open now)

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Two days ago I watched a YouTube video in a Firefox window (Fred Astaire and ginger rogers, as it happens). I closed Firefox as per usual - the next day, I loaded Firefox and it loaded my home page (google.com), but started playing the audio to that YouTube clip in the background. Every time I load Firefox it does that. I have restarted, cleared out my cache and all Firefox history, but that didn't help. Any ideas??!?? David

Two days ago I watched a YouTube video in a Firefox window (Fred Astaire and ginger rogers, as it happens). I closed Firefox as per usual - the next day, I loaded Firefox and it loaded my home page (google.com), but started playing the audio to that YouTube clip in the background. Every time I load Firefox it does that. I have restarted, cleared out my cache and all Firefox history, but that didn't help. Any ideas??!?? David

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1 - Open Firefox -> Help Menu -> select "Restart with Add-ons Disabled"

Firefox will close then it will open up with just basic Firefox. Now you can Enable the Add-ons and it should be ok.

2 - If above solution does not work then you will need to start Firefox in Safe Mode. Check this out.

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode?s=safe+mode&as=s#w_how-to-start-firefox-in-safe-mode