This bug can be reproduced on a system without the Adobe Flash plugin installed by using Firefox to watch a YouTube video or some other online video. It will crash fairly soon due to bug #1085342. The likelyhood of crashing is possibly higher if using Firefox 18.0.1 due to JavaScript related stability issues which are fixed in Firefox 18.0.2. Attempting to relaunch Firefox after the crash usually results in a "Firefox is already running" error, and attempting to kill -9 the Firefox process does nothing. If you kill -9 the (phantom) MediaDecode process the Firefox process will be killed as well and you can then relaunch Firefox.
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