308190 - During usage, home page of mozilla.org keeps popping up randomly in newer windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 298635

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[mrudula gundewar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I just installed the free firefox 1.0.6 version to try out, because I am getting
sick of IE and it's security related problems.  While trying out the newly
installed firefox version 1.0.6, multiple versions of mozilla's home page get
randomly displayed in new windows.  As I write this, I have 3 other separate
open windows at mozilla.org.  Closing any one of these (a 4th window just opened
as I type this) closes all windows and if I do that, I will lose this current
window that I am typing on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.double click firefox icon on desktop
2. proceed to browse or work on current window of firefox
3. notice multiple windows of firefox being spawned randomly with passage of time

Actual Results:  
I currently have 5 spawned processes running mozilla,firefox in separate windows.

Expected Results:  
give me control of opening as many windows as I want.  It's like the annoying
pop up ads problem.

Could I be experiencing a spyware (advertisements) problem?

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Sounds like it (spy/malware).
Can you set IE as default browser and run Firefox and see it it still happens ?

Comment 2

[james.bugzilla]

I swear I remember a very similar post on mozillazine forums a while back on
this same problem and it turned out it was due to a particular software which
was starting up Firefox every so often instead of say IE, because Firefox was
the poster's default browser.

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 298635?

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298635 ***