So, it's really annoying how on this MacBook firefox starts up every time I log in. I have go over and click it to tell it to go to hell. Of course the controls for this sort of thing are all hidden on the mac. What is interesting is that there is a chorus of wailing on Google regarding this issue, replete with insinuations of malfeasance on Mozilla's part. Answers to other people's questions included where to find the startup controls so that it can be disabled there (it wasn't enabled there for me), how to click on the system tray icon to directly affect this setting (it wasn't set there either), to obscure bugs in unrelated software that was causing the problem (but... it's supposed to just work). The best links so far:
The basic suggestion:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/738485
The forum thread where much smarter people post the obscure solutions that worked for them:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=204670
