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Periodically when I open a tab or pdf the system continuously opens the same tab.

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I have tried to open a bank statement, a credit card statement, and just a random website. Once it happened when I tried to print a label from EBay. It will open hundreds of the same site. I force shut down, run CCCleaner and it finally stops. Only to happen again in a few days. It started about a month ago. Haven't visited any weird sites.

I have tried to open a bank statement, a credit card statement, and just a random website. Once it happened when I tried to print a label from EBay. It will open hundreds of the same site. I force shut down, run CCCleaner and it finally stops. Only to happen again in a few days. It started about a month ago. Haven't visited any weird sites.

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Sounds that you once selected Firefox as the application to open PDF files, you should never do this. You can check the action for Portable Document Format (PDF) in "Options/Preferences -> General -> Applications" and make sure it is set to "Preview in Firefox".

You get tabs opening endlessly if you select Firefox as the application to handle a file when you get an "Open with" dialog.

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Sounds that you once selected Firefox as the application to open PDF files, you should never do this. You can check the action for Portable Document Format (PDF) in "Options/Preferences -> General -> Applications" and make sure it is set to "Preview in Firefox".

You get tabs opening endlessly if you select Firefox as the application to handle a file when you get an "Open with" dialog.