When surfing, new windows unrelated open.

When surfing or moving my mouse over a link, new windows, especially groupon opens. I am running windows 7 64 bit with Firefox 5.0

I am also having the same problem.  It opens web sites I have visited in the past.  It happens despite clearing the history.  I have also tried to surf in private mode and I will still get past windows open of sites visited in private mode.
I do have "block pop up windows" enabled.
Any ideas what is going on and how to stop it?
Thanks in advance.

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