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It's not under one of my user account login items, and even when I delete its password access from Keychain, its entry reappears in Keychain when I open another Finder window!
How can I stop this from happening? Any advice is appreciated. I've clicked and poked all around Finder window settings, and perhaps my eyes have glazed over to where I'm missing something obvious.

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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_a_missing_profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
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