On my computer, you can call computeSpectrum to access the sound playing from other Flash movies.
Try leaving this open and watching a video on youtube or listening to grooveshark.
Sometimes the call to computeSpectrum throws a security exception as expected, but often it returns successfully.
I've also made a DTMF detector sort of thing.
Try going here and pressing some buttons.
http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/tone/dtmf.html
or watching this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThZF8yfZrE
I'm using:
Windows 7
player version WIN 11,1,102,55
Firefox 10.0.1
Maybe this won't work for you.
That's scary. I thought browsing per tab was private/sandboxed? Works like a charm for me, Mac OS X, ff 10.0.1. So any website could theorically follow the sound of your browsing...