Why won't Firefox 33 shut down properly?

I must have just got an update to V33 because I was not seeing this problem before today. I have not myself been messing with the configuration in the last couple of weeks. (Not sure when the last time I actually closed Firefox successfully, but it was definitely within the last 3 days.) Looking at Submitted Crash Reports, I see just one on 10/3 and then 53 of them spanning the interval from 7PM to 8PM this evening, during which I had had to kill it from the Task Manager 3 times because it was just hanging when it was supposed to be shutting down. Here is a small sample:
af0c75a7-feaf-4ad3-aae2-81ddeedeaaaf 10/18/2014 8:00 PM
f0309bc5-4bc8-435f-9f33-aa2c6bb3a09d 10/18/2014 8:00 PM
02906c47-fc27-4559-b735-093215ac92b5 10/18/2014 8:00 PM
302fce44-9e80-440c-8f79-241b3a3d8328 10/18/2014 8:00 PM
Firefox seems to be working normally when I restart it.
I really do not want to have to do a reset to fix this. However, if I were to have to, would Sync put things back?
Is reverting to V32 an option? If so, how?
I'd appreciate any help.

Uhh. Never mind. After restarting Windows, it started shutting down normally again.

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