OS X Firefox profiles cache filling up since 18 June, today one of these files appears on desktop at startup and has become login item - what's going on?

E.g. In /Users/MYNAME/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/4h26zusu.default/Cache/3/A3 there are many small files created over last 2 weeks (similarly in all other cache slots). But this file A013Bd01, which is a small picture, appeared in my login items and, on startup this morning (1 July) was open on the desktop in TextEdit - appearing as gobbledygook text. Why so many cache entries over last two weeks - is this a Fx 5.0 glitch?

E.g. In /Users/MYNAME/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/4h26zusu.default/Cache/3/A3 there are many small files created over last 2 weeks (similarly in all other cache slots). But this file A013Bd01, which is a small picture, appeared in my login items and, on startup this morning (1 July) was open on the desktop in TextEdit - appearing as gobbledygook text. Why so many cache entries over last two weeks - is this a Fx 5.0 glitch?

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