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Firefox opens multiple tabs for many web pages.

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As many as 30 tabs open and try to load simultaneously. It doesn't do it for every site but enough to be very annoying. It just started doing this very recently.

As many as 30 tabs open and try to load simultaneously. It doesn't do it for every site but enough to be very annoying. It just started doing this very recently.

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What is on those other tabs / windows? Sites that you know, or ads?

You may have ad / mal-ware. Further information can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware article.


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They are all duplicates of the same site try to download the same info.

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What is the page address, and what is it trying to download?

Is this something you wanted, or started before?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift (Mac Options) > key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?

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It happened with netflix, realtor.com and others. Resetting firefox seems to have fixed the problem so I'm good for now. Thanks