Adobe flashplayer causing firefox plugin container to burn CPU

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit with 8GB RAM and Firefox 6.02 on a quad CPU 2.5 GHz Alienware M17x notebook. I am having a problem with Adobe flashplayer (v 10.3.183.10) which causes the plugin container to use a sustained circa 30% of CPU even when Firefox is not doing much.  This causes excessive fan speeds, noise, heating etc.  Disabling the plugin reduces the CPU use from the container to less than 1%. Ay idea how I can run flash and avoid the excessive CPU load?

Thanks guys for looking at this.  I have been waiting all day to test as you suggest but I can't get my system to produce the problem again and I have not changed any hardware, software, settings or anything!  The plugin container has been behaving correctly with Flash no matter what sites I have visited. V silly as I was stuck with this for several days before posting.
May have been a random machine error.  I will repost if it comes back but feeling sheepish now.
D.

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