Stop Firefox automatically opening homepage when opening links in external apps.

When Firefox is not running, and intermittently when running and there are no windows open, clicking a link in another program (such as Tweetie or Apple's Mail.app) causes Firefox to open a second window with my homepage in it.
I cannot find a way to disable this in settings, and it happens on 3.6 and 4.0 Beta, both Windows and Mac (haven't tried Linux).
If this is a "feature" please let me know if there is a way of preventing it as it's very frustrating. If I want to open my homepage I will open the app manually by clicking it's icon, otherwise I want just my link to open and nothing else.

That is a bug on Mac (reopened).<br />
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531552 - Firefox 3.6b opens two windows when opening external links
(please do not comment in bug reports)

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