Google's 2010 Pac-Man doodle unexpectedly auto-played in Firefox via an extension
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In 2010 Google turned its homepage logo into a playable Pac-Man game to mark the game's 30th anniversary. A browser extension called CoolPreviews secretly loaded the homepage in the background, so the game's sounds started playing on some people's computers without warning.
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