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How to stop firefox from automatically opening new windows or tabs?

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Whenever I start Firefox it automatically opens a new tab and a new window. Also whenever I click on a link it automatically redirects to some other site which isnt the link I clicked.

Whenever I start Firefox it automatically opens a new tab and a new window. Also whenever I click on a link it automatically redirects to some other site which isnt the link I clicked.

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You can check the target line in the Firefox desktop shortcut (right-click: Properties) to make sure that nothing is appended after the path to the Firefox program.

You can check for recently installed suspicious or unknown extensions.


Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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