Upon opening Firefox I get as many as a dozen Firefox pages all at once. I am positive that I have only clicked on the icon one time.

Restarting my desktop pc doesn't solve the problem. I am using Windows 7 and Version 5.0 of Firefox.

Thank you for your response; but, I will NOT ever use FF's Safe Mode again until or unless it comes with a WORKING cancel-and-return-to-normal mode switch--a most logical device, that OFF button.
Anyway, thanks, but several hours of trying to get out of safe mode and finally uninstalling--didn't work--then being unable to reinstall version 9.0.1--didn't work--only to have to perform a system restore, which was unable to install any version of FF without a zillion bugs...I'd rather eat ants than go through all that again--and it's continuing--of the last few hours. Not even years and years of using Explorer has given me the headache that I now have from FF--and if it wasn't for CoolIris, I'd chuck FF in a a second!
Give me a couple of days to regain my sanity and I might try your--I'm sure--excellent advice. By the way, for me, it isn't McAfee, it is, I do believe, the Memory Test add-on that "magically" came with StretchClock. They're both gone from my system!! Those clever little add-ons are forever off my list of things to try.

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