Awesome: Can't close Firefox's addons window

As the title says. It popped up after installing adblock, and there's no button to close it. Restarting Firefox just makes it pop up again.
What should I do?

Crows wrote:
Read man awesome, like the menu entry and all the help docs tell you to.
If you do that, you'll find that the default keybind to close a window is Mod + Shift + C.
You'll also find the key combos for many other useful functions.
Funny, I've skimmed awesome's man page a few times and missed that one. Thanks!

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