How do I stop random tabs from opening on their own?

ok, every time I open firefox it opens my usual tabs and everything's fine. But after a while for no reason at all it'll just open a random tab so some random website relevant to what I'm looking at or searching at the time. For example I was looking up how to make a visual arts portfolio, and it randomly opened a site that I could buy portfolio covers from. Overall it's just extremely annoying.
I've done several things to try and remedy the problem such as uninstalling and reinstalling firefox, using various addons such as addblock plus, BlockSite, NoScript, an AVG toolbar, as well as running various virus and malware scans using Malware Bytes, AVG, Spybot S&D, Avast, and Combo Fix. So far nothing has worked, obviously. So now I'm down to the point of frustration, because I can't figure out what the problem is, and neither can my computer geek friends. Help would be really appreciated.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== [about two months ago]

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Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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