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Whenever I try to print something a whole buncg of the same tab opens up and after a minute, ther are like 400 tabs open and i can't even see what is wrong.

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mckinneyboys2015
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Whenever I print something or try to open a file, thousands of tabs with the same file open up rapidly.

Whenever I print something or try to open a file, thousands of tabs with the same file open up rapidly.

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Eve
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this thread had some insight, ultimately the user uninstalled and reinstalled and it corrected the problem. Cor-el's response might help too:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1194929

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

   https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Firefox+keeps+opening+many+tabs+or+windows

Sounds that the builtin Firefox PDF Viewer is disabled or otherwise isn't working. You can check the action for Portable Document Format (PDF) in "Options/Preferences application -> General: Applications" and make sure it is "Preview in Firefox".

Does this link open a blank PDF Viewer window? 

   resource://pdf.js/web/viewer.html

See also: 

   https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-without-downloading-them

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