Firefox suddenly started opening my images. why?

Previously opening images stored on my hard drive was done with Windows Explorer. They were all opened locally. Then suddenly without warming all my images are now opened by Firefox. I don't want this to be? Why is this happening. As far as I know I changed nothing and I can't find where to go to stop it from happening.
I am very annoyed with this.

Hi rjwwalker3-
It is possible to adjust your preferences for files, and what Firefox does with them. Here is an article on how to adjust your preferences when dealing with files:
[[Managing file types]]
Hope that helps!

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Source File: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
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Warning: WARN addons.updates: HTTP Request failed for an unknown reason
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