Safari/Firefox need to Cmd+Q twice to quit.

No big deal, but it's bored.
It has been a long time, everytime I quit the Safari or Firefox, few secs later, the icon on the dock jumps again - the browser starts again. And I need to Cmd+Q one more time to quit it.
Someone told me to delete the .plist file of the browser, but it works only a few time, and the problem comes back soon.
Is there any way to fix it? Thx!

See my reply to your other thread....your hard drive is failing.
Dale

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You can mitigate those threats by following commonsense practices
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Illegally obtained software is almost certain to contain malware.
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PING google.com (64.233.167.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=215.362 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=279.597 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=189.747 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=250.657 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=183.232 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=244 time=243.753 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=244 time=173.108 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=244 time=230.239 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=244 time=180.639 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=244 time=232.177 ms
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64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=189.655 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=213.471 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=257.873 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=172.745 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=226.723 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=244 time=171.883 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=244 time=260.308 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=244 time=172.963 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=244 time=198.840 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=244 time=181.215 ms
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I use Google.
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8.8.4.4
BDAqua suggests in a post.
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208.67.220.220
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https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/device/apple-osx-tiger
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