It couldn't have been that easy

My desktop machine at home runs the 64-bit version of Debian 5.0 ("Lenny"). I have long been frustrated at its inability to get streaming audio from two of my clients, who use embedded Flash-based players that conceal the URL's of the streams. I've spent vast numbers of hours installing various Flash versions, 32-bit wrappers, open-source alternatives, etc. Firefox would either ignore the players or crash (Flash-induced Firefox crashes seem all too common even on 32-bit machines).

But today the answer came to me, and it took two minutes to install: Google Chrome. Yes, there's a 64-bit Google Chrome for Linux, and Flash doesn't crash it.