When I click on a link, tabs open continuously and rapidly until I close the browser. How do I stop it?

Every time I click on a link, multiple tabs open rapidly, one after another, until I close the browser. This does not happen when I use Internet Explorer.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened

Firefox includes options of how to handle different content types, in your case the mailto links are probably set to "Use Firefox". For details of how to fix this see [[Firefox keeps opening many tabs or windows]], in particular the section "Change the action for a content type".

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    Please continue the discussion in this thread: [tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comments_parentId=688606&forumId=1]
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    == Description
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