Firefox opens with I access Dashboard on Mac OSX 10.6.4, why?

Every time I open my dashboard screen on my Mac, Firefox starts up and opens two windows, it appears to be trying to open a link automatically. How do I get this to stop? I suspect it might have something to do with the webclip feature on Safari but I don't understand why it prompts firefox to open.
== I added some web clip widgets onto dashboard ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16

Download a new copy of the Firefox program: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Trash the current Firefox application to do a clean reinstall.
Install the new version that you have downloaded.
Your profile data is stored elsewhere in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder], so you won't lose your bookmarks and other personal data.

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