Stopping Firefox from Opening Things in Google Docs

[R. A. Bilonick]

On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 12:57 -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with firefox. For some strange reason, firefox is
> trying to open what I think are just web pages in Google Docs, and then
> Google docs saying it can't open it. 
> 
> How can I stop firefox from starting Google Docs? I've looked in
> extensions and plugins and also in preferences (applications) in firefox
> and I can't find anything that seems to apply that I can turn off.
> 
> 
> 
> 

I noticed that some how, "https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=" is being
appended to the url:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/23/wikileaks.documents/index.html?hpt=T1&embedded=true&chrome=true

but I'm not sure what is causing this.