Why does firefox jump to the front after i hide it in mac os x lion?

Just installed Lion a week ago and ever since, when i have firefox open and i hide it to do something else, every 40 seconds or so Firefox automatically jumps to the front in finder no matter what i am doing.
It is really annoying.
Anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Gary

Try to run Disk Utility and repaired disk permissions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963?viewlocale=en_US
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