A new window opens for everything I click, what could be wrong?

Everytime I click anything, it opens in a new window, rather than changing the page I'm on. If I specify I can get it to open in a new tab, but the page itself refuses to change. It happened randomly. I haven't touched anything in the options, though I have been trying to see if t here is anything wrong there. I found nothing. Anyone have any ideas on what could be going on?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== Just a few minutes ago

everything. anything i clicked would open in a new window. i went to options, but there was nothing off. i tried altering them anyway, and then setting them back to normal and it did nothing. anything clicked, opened in a new windo.
oddly enough it seems to have self-corrected somehow, which makes me a bit uncomfortable, not knowing how or why this began, or how it came to cease...

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