Flip Flop from Safari to Finder

I don't now if this is the correct place to pose this question. Sometimes after I reboot, my Macbook flips screens from Safari to Finder about every 5 seconds. I guess it eventually stops because it's not doing it. I am on DSL, but I disconnected and it still continued to flip flop.

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