Whenever I open Firefox a series of sirens start and will not stop. Does not happen in Internert Explorer.

When Firefox is opened a series of sirens starts and will not stop until Firefox is closed.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== started when I opened a news story from the Sacramento Bee News Paper on line. ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6.4; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.1)

That is an issue with the "Cool Previews" extension.
See [tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comments_parentId=678288&forumId=1]

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== User Agent ==
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