Firefox will not let me start more than one instance (or new window)

I thought I'd check here first in hopes of an answer. I am not sure what this is related to honestly. I have not done any recent system updates and this was working fine yesterday afternoon.
This morning, when I unlocked my screen, I was unable to open a new instance of firefox (already had one running). I rebooted for the heck of it and that did not help in the least. Trying to run firefox from the cli gives no errors - I am even unable to call a new window from within firefox itself. Simply nothing happens.
Please any help would be appreciated. I really need this to work. I have too much to get done today for something like this to happen.
Thanks
B

Yeah I didn't really want to have to do that. I've got three apache recompiles to do and a conference call in less than 2 hours.
A bit more info on this.
If I run 'firefox -browser -no-remote' it gives me the old 'Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing firefox process ... yada'
I'm going to try disabling some specific extensions

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