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Every time I open Firefox it opens between 40 and 50 windows, how can i stop this?

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Almost every time I open Firefox I get multiple windows and my computer slows to the point it almost freezes. On one occasion it opened more than 100 windows.

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Every time Firefox opened

== About 3 or 4 months ago

Almost every time I open Firefox I get multiple windows and my computer slows to the point it almost freezes. On one occasion it opened more than 100 windows. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == About 3 or 4 months ago

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cor-el
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See Firefox repeatedly opens empty tabs or windows after you click on a link

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