Why does Safari randomly open up Firefox when certain urls are typed in?

While trying to access an FTP site, typed in the address into Safari and hit return. Safari then opened up URL in Firefox.   Tried opening up a random website in Safari, one that I frequent regularly, and it opened in Safari...   It took an excruciatingly long time to open.
I will add that Maverick was recently installed onto the machine. Has anyone come across this problem before and if so, what's the fix?
Thanks

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
Click:   Remove All Website Data
Then delete the cache.
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If nothing above helped, troubleshoot Safari extensions.
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.

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