Video thumbnail opens in new tab automatically

When visiting some websites with video thumbnails, including Google Mail and Startribune.com, Firefox will sporadically open a new tab with the video thumbnail.
This happens as a new Gmail message or as the website loads. It happens in safe mode as well as with extensions enabled. The problem cannot be reliably replicated even with identical URLs.
This is the link to a Youtube video that opens automatically when sent in a Gmail message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzlhBU4nkQw&feature=player_profilepage
The tab that opens is not the actual Youtube video page, but rather a link that starts with https://nl3atn8402ncgahndqn8rb6qi2ld2g5a-a-gm-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/ifr?url=
On the page is just the thumbnail-sized video.

Do you use  earthlink  (esp webmail)?  I figured out that it is a problem with  an ad they are running.   At least that's what it was for me.  If you log completely out of webmail and shut safari down and restart it without going to earthlink webmail, the teebik popups do not come back (even with a lot of browsing to multiple other sites).
I installed the adblocker extension and so far that is taking care of it -- was able to turn things back on to get webmail functionallity back, without the teebik ads.
  Not sure that's what Earthlink WANTED me to do -- as I no longer see ANY earthlink ads -- but hey, it got rid of the teebik stuff they were forcing on me.

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