Firefox stops playing sound, closing Firefox leaves straggling processes running, kill those and sound returns, how to fix?

Firefox 3.6.8 just now on Ubuntu 9.10, but happens on 8.04-10.04 Ubuntu with related older Firefox versions.
Problem is probably related to Youtube/Flash problems, but something gets stuck in Firefox. I can close the main instance of Firefox, but looking in 'top' I can still find processes running for Firefox (sometimes if I try to restart Firefox I will get a note that Firefox is already running). If I kill those 'runaway processes' then restart Firefox I have Youtube/etc sound back.
When this happens all programs on the computer cannot produce sound. When processes killed then sound works all around.

I was able to fix this problem on my computer in Windows 7. Try going to start/control panel/programs and then uninstall the flash plugin -
then start browser again go to a flash video and when prompted install plugin again.
This worked well for me let me know how everyone else makes out.

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- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store. Seems you have a bad headphone jack.
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Hi I found the answer from another post. So far everything is working find. I been trying to fix this since march,
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Deleting the application rarely solves anything on Macs. A better starting point is normally to delete the preference file for the application (in Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.itunes.plist) or see if you have the same problem in another user account on the computer.
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Mike, deleting the preferences did the trick, but I don't know why. Itunes downloaded 5 days of podcast! Hurray!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!

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My headphone output my have been compromised with dust or dirt !
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