I may be imagining things, but my browser (the native one) has not crashed once since I installed Adobe Flash. I had noticed that it crashed consistently on the full LA Times website, which had a lot of ads and images. I downloaded the Flash version that was tested by others here (thread starts with "Flash" in the archive), rebooted my EE -- probably not a necessary step -- and so far I haven't been able to make it crash!
Can anyone verify or deny my "breakthrough"? I will test it more myself tomorrow.