Firefox makes a lot of new windows when i try to press on an email link

I press on a link with email address
then my firefox 3.6.4 on imac starts to make a lot of new empty windows so they cover my whole screen, hundreds of them.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== yesterday

Thanks the problem was in the settings
Check the Mailto application in Firefox > Preferences > Applications
Make sure that it isn't set to the Firefox application.
Now it works fine

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