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Whenever I press a link on a site Firefox opens hundreds of tabs and will not stop untill I close the program

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Roy8460
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I have been having this problem for some time now. Whenever I press an, email contact link on any site, Firefox immediately opens hundreds of tabs very quickly and will not stop until I close the program (Mozilla Firefox that is). When I reopen it starts to add more tabs. Sometimes pressing Esc stops it and then I have to delete all the, literally hundreds, of tabs. Any help would be most appreciated as this is a pain.

Cheers ............ Roy

I have been having this problem for some time now. Whenever I press an, email contact link on any site, Firefox immediately opens hundreds of tabs very quickly and will not stop until I close the program (Mozilla Firefox that is). When I reopen it starts to add more tabs. Sometimes pressing Esc stops it and then I have to delete all the, literally hundreds, of tabs. Any help would be most appreciated as this is a pain. Cheers ............ Roy

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

You should never choose the Firefox program if you get an Open with download dialog.
You need to remove that action.