My Firefox tabs don't close at times. Why? Help?

So whenever I start opening tabs, the close button doesn't close my tabs. This usually happens when I have 4-5 tabs open. Then when I switch to another tab, I can't switch back to the tabs I want to close. This really is annoying because then I have to restart Firefox, resulting in none of my tabs being saved. It may be an add-on I have but I'm not sure. Please help!

That didn't seem to fix it permanently, I could really use some help on why this keeps doing this

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