Can I find exactly how Firefox is launched? Re: Random launches of Firefox

One one of my desktop XP machines, even though the machine is idle (no applications running), something unseen keeps randomly launching Firefox (it is my default browser). They are launched without a link (i.e., it launched to my empty startup page rather than any specific URL).
All I do is boot up and leave it alone, intending to come back later. Within a half-hour, 5 to 20 Firefox windows are randomly opened to the blank startup page.
I've scanned the system very, very extensively for malware, but no malware is ever found. I used the maximum settings for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, and Spyware Doctor. For the heck of it, I tried Panda online as well, but it found nothing wrong either.
It would help enormously if I could discover precisely how and what launched any given Firefox window. Is that information discoverable? If so, how?
That systems is running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a high-end workstation motherboard with 4 GB physical RAM (3.4 GB available to Windows) and a 3.0 GB Intel dual-core processor. Firefox is V 3.6.8.

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