Recording sound from a web page

[Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>]

I am trying to record sound that is playing in firefox, or chrome. I am 
using Audacity 2.0.1 on Wheezy.  I am trying to find an input device 
that gets the sound straight from the browser output.  I can plug in a 
patch cord from speaker to mic and record that way, but I am getting a 
clicking in the background that I can't seem to get rid of.  I would 
prefer if Audacity simply used the speaker output directly without a 
patch cord.  Is there a way to do this?  I tried VLC (version 2.0.6) but 
had no luck finding the desired input there, either.  Is there some 
other package that will do this better?

Marc