Mounted drive is opening during start up.

Can any of you help me with the following problem? I have mounted a drive and you can have it automatically start up without having to connect them manually every time. However, you can avoid with a hide button that it opens in a screen every time you startup. Hide the selection does not work. Every time I boot the disk opens in a screen. Does anyone know what the problem is and how I can fix this? Thank you.

Howdy Scapin,
It sounds like you are using the Hide option in the Login Items to try to keep mounted servers from opening.
Check out
OS X Yosemite: Open items automatically when you log in
If you don’t want an item’s windows to be visible after login, select Hide.
Note: Hide does not apply to servers, which always appear in the Finder after login.
You might want to try closing the server window before shutting down.
Best,
Nubz

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Test one addon at a time to see if this particular addon is behind your Firefox issues like the ones I had.
So, disable one addon only at a time. Then close your Firefox and restart it from scratch and see if you still have your Firefox problems. You must restart the Firefox browser from scratch. If you still have these Firefox problems, re-enable the disabled addon, restart your Firefox (again!) and repeat the same method for every single addon that you have.
Try to be selective by choosing first addons that are more likely to cause your Firefox problems such as not very well-known or not very popular addons (like it was the case for the PhotoME addon).
If this method works or if it does not work, report it on this web page so that others can be helped with your comments.
I hope this method will help you because I was really upset that I had these Firefox problems and I first thought it was the fault of Firefox, only to discover later that this PhotoME addon was the culprit and had caused me such upset.

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