How to stop Firefox windows from rapid fire opening.

When trying to go from Pandora to iTunes to purchase a song... the first window to open is the preview window. No problem. BUT, when i try to go from that window to the iTunes store a cascade of FireFox windows start to open rapid fire w/ no stop. Have to crash out and reboot the confuser to stop the window from continuing to open ad infnitium. This just started when i was asked to associate a program w/ iTunes for some reason... Maybe a new version glitch? I cannot find anywhere in options or preferences to change or stop FireFox from goin' wild. Help me... please...

It could be a bug in the Flash Player plugin, caused by the protected mode feature. This thread has the background on that and known workarounds: [https://support.mozilla.org/questions/955659 Opening New Windows and Shockwave Flash].

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This is Dominic L. from Applications Engineering at National Instruments. This was reported to R&D (CAR#41DAPUQU) and was fixed in LabVIEW 8.2.1. Here is a link to the current evaluation software download for LabVIEW:
http://digital.ni.com/demo.nsf/websearch/14f9ce475127ade786256ac60070926c?opendocument
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Attachments:
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