Firefox 4 auto launches on startup on MacPro

My friend just bought a Macbook Pro - OS X is version 10.6.7
When Firefox 4.0 was first installed it worked fine, but then suddenly everytime you logon FireFox browser window automatically opens.
Thanks

To test to see if there is a problem with the profile (location where Firefox stores user data), try creating a new profile for use with Firefox 4 beta 8. For details of how to do that see [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows - MozillaZine Knowledge Base]
If it works with the new profile, you can copy some of the old data such as bookmarks and passwords from the old profile folder, for details see [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox Transferring data to a new profile - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base]

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