When I click on a link, multiple(and by multiple, I mean a ton) blank tabs open. The only way to stop more blank tabs from opening is to close out of firefox completely. Do I have a virus or do I need to change my settings?
If I click on something to open in a new tab or click on someone's email to open Outlook, instead of doing that, a bunch of blank tabs open. I'm fine with a couple blank tabs, but they keep opening. The only way to stop the tabs from opening is to close out of firefox entirely. When I try to reopen firefox, blank tabs again begin to reopen. You can't close out of them fast enough because they keep opening. To stop opening the blank tabs, you must restart firefox a second time.
Is this a virus or something wrong with my firefox settings??
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Firefox includes options of how to handle different content types, in your case the mailto links are probably set to "Use Firefox". For details of how to fix this see Firefox repeatedly opens empty tabs or windows after you click on a link, in particular the section "Change the action for a content type".
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Firefox includes options of how to handle different content types, in your case the mailto links are probably set to "Use Firefox". For details of how to fix this see Firefox repeatedly opens empty tabs or windows after you click on a link, in particular the section "Change the action for a content type".
Thanks! That solved the problem, and now I don't have annoying tabs popping up left and right.
I've used Firefox for years, yet this problem started happening only in the last couple of months. Mac OS 10.6 here.
What gives? Makes me want to switch browsers.
ricklapel, see the link in my first reply