Cannot close a tab

I have Firefox 3.6.12. In the last couple of days I have been having problems cosing tabs. I click on the cross on the tab but nothing happens. It only happens occasionaly on 1 tab. I can close other tabs in the session without a problem.
It is not specific to any particular website.
Clsoing Firefox and relaunching it seems to clear the problem.

I reinstalled 3.6.12 again today - and now I can close the first tab. Not sure if it is going to be messed up again. The other thing I noticed when the first tab is stuck is that it starts with session history also not working for that tab and back button quits working.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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