My Firefox started randomly redirecting.How do I stop it?

Several times it jumped to local host. Several it jumped to Embarq search page and said it couldn't be found. (Amazon can't be found? Really!)
I tried it in Safari but the problem seems to be limited to Firefox.

Did you set up any alerts/push notifications?

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