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Firefox keeps opening new windows (yahoo, google analytics) when I click on a link in the page I'm viewing

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ChristosP
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When I click on any link in the web-page I'm viewing, Firefox opens a new window. Most often is is either yahoo or google analytics. This is very strange, as the links I am trying to open have nothing to do with these sites, but are things like articles in a newspaper etc. Also, the setting I have for firefox is for new sites to open in tabs and not new windows. This has only started happening last week, and I have been suing firefox for years.

When I click on any link in the web-page I'm viewing, Firefox opens a new window. Most often is is either yahoo or google analytics. This is very strange, as the links I am trying to open have nothing to do with these sites, but are things like articles in a newspaper etc. Also, the setting I have for firefox is for new sites to open in tabs and not new windows. This has only started happening last week, and I have been suing firefox for years.

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ecclesand
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For those of you who have tried to clear this problem up with virus scans, various malware scanning programs, tdss rootkiller, etc....I have another possibility. I found another thread on this very forum where someone suggested the problem was in the router...specifically, there were manually entered DNS addresses in the router setup. I logged into my router (192.168.1.1) and sure enough, there were DNS addresses loaded and it was setup to use those DNS addresses. I simply clicked on the option to pull the DNS addresses automatically from my ISP, changed the password, and the problem was gone.

Thanks to cr85tx for the solution!!! https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/697011?page=1