My Firefox goes bonkers and opens all these random pages in the tabs if I'm performing a web search.  Why?
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It sounds like it is very possible that you have adware on your system.  Firefox deals with popups in a strange way sometimes, and when it's supposed to open in a new window, it opens in a new tab instead, without telling you that it's a popup.\ntry downloading Ad-Aware SE personal from http://www.lavasoft.com/\n\nIf that doesn't work, check the extensions that you've downloaded.  Any that you don't need anymore you should delete, just in case one of those is your problem\n\nFinally, if none of those work, check to make sure that you have the newest version of Firefox (2.0)
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If your browser is switching pages without you clicking on anything, you probably have some kind of browser hijacker (a type of spyware).  Recommend you download and run a couple of anti-spyware programs like Ad-aware and Spybot, then install Microsoft Defender to reduce future infections. (All are free downloads).\n\nThen get yourself a copy of Firefox (another free download) to use instead of Internet Explorer.  Because it is only used by about 5-10% of people on the Internet, Firefox has not been hit as much by viruses, spyware and hijackers (why write something for all 5% of the people?).
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Have you tried dumping your browser's cache, along with your temporary internet files? \n\nI don't know if this is even the right advice, but it HAS helped me when web pages started acting "funny" on me. I have not, however, run into the specific problem you mentioned. But hopefully you'll get to the bottom of it! :)
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It's probably because your browser has cached the page in temporary memory, so it is being retrieved from your hard drive / memory, rather than from the server.
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I am afraid you have a virus.\nHmmmm\nLet us try the following first\n- Clear history and cookies\n- Delete temporary internet files\nBoth 1 and 2 are in Internet options from Control panel\n- Go to C: > Documents and settings > YourUserName > Local settings > Temp\nand delete every thing here\n(If you could not see Local settings, type it in address bar)\n- Restart computer and try again\n- Mark me as best answer if the problem goes with the wind \n\nXLMan
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Make sure you're using Internet Explorer from Microsoft.  Although I prefer Mozilla Firefox as my browser, here and there I can't open some webpages.
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Hmmmm\nAre you sure you have a connection to the net?\nDo all search engines do that? or some of them?\nplease make sure the firewall does not interrupt you and..\nLet us try the following.\n- Clear history and cookies\n- Delete temporary internet files\nBoth 1 and 2 are in Internet options from Control panel\n- Go to C: > Documents and settings > YourUserName > Local settings > Temp\nand delete every thing here\n(If you could not see Local settings, type it in address bar)\n- Restart computer and try again\n- Mark me as best answer if the problem goes with the wind \n\nXLMan
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Try closing and reopening your browser. It might be a cache problem.
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Internet Explorer on my CPU does the same thing sometimes. \nTo get around it, right click on the link and select "open in new window".
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Hi,\n\nThis has happened to me a few times before in the past and I usually think nothing of it. Try refreshing the page and running basic diagnostics on your computer such as disk clean-up, defrag, virus scan etc. Then restart. Also you should make sure you have the latest version of Firefox availible. I also use Firefox and have this problem every once in awhile, maybe it is a bug. I don't think there is anything wrong with your computer though!
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mine (dropdown menu) opened up into a new window allowing me to choose from a variety of options.  i don't know if it depends on the version of firefox you're running... but i find myself spending more and more time using mozilla and less with microflop every day.  since the toolbar is so versatile, i'm sure there's a way to change the search engine settings as well.  firefox's hallmark seems to be 'versatility'.\n\nps::: i'm not hiding anything either!
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See if your computer has spyware. Ads might popup or programs try to steal data at a random interval and cause protection crashes that internet explorer would allow.\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/security.php
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i suspect you have a BHO (Browser Helper Object) or your browser has been hijacked....try Kim Komando's site and search for browswer hijack....
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Sometime websites will (either by accident or by design)\nhave an insane amount of stuff going on with Javascript.\nYou might try turning off javascript before visiting\nthose pages to see if that doesn't relieve the problem.\n\nThe "catch" to doing this is that if you leave it off,\nsometimes you'll visit pages where *useful* things\naren't functional because they depend on it.
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get firefox, hit CLEAR PRIVATE DATA, that's it\nleave ie now, boy
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Not sure what's happening for you.  If the page opens up in the same window then it's the settings of the web site.  If the page doesn't open up at all then you are probably running a popup blocker.  If that is the case, hold down the ctrl key when clicking on the link to override the popup blocker.
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Hmmmm\nLet us try the following.\n1- Clear history and cookies\n2- Delete temporary internet files\nBoth 1 and 2 are in Internet options from Control panel\n3- Restart computer and try again\n4- Mark me as best answer if the problem goes with the wind \n5- Check for antivirus, you need one