MB Temps Skyrocket watching CNN Video within Firefox

Hello,
I was using my MB tonight doing he usual. Surfing with Firefox with 6 tabs open watching CNN News videos when my temp skyrocketed from 125 F to 165 F during the course of a 3 minute blurb. I have smc_fancontrol 2.0 installed and whenever I watch a video I change the default fan speed from 1500rpm to 3000rpm. That is what it was at when it shot up. The fan speed spooled up on it's own to a whopping 6202rpm. The really weird thing is I walked away from the MB and paused the video and the temp still shot up.
I have since shut everything down and the temp is hovering around 126 F with the fans on 3000rpm. Usually the temps are under 120F with 1500rpm. No updates installed, no added software for a few days, just recharged the battery (from calibration). It has been on battery only for 1 hour, not plugged in.
Anyone have any thing like this before? Any and all help is greatly appreciated

UPDATE:
This only happen within Firefox not Safari. Typing this post has my temps down to 115 F with fans @ 3000rpm.

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== Issue
==
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
==
I cannot view videos within Firefox. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it. I have deleted plugins and reinstalled some plugins, I do not know what else to try. Could someone please help? My telephone number is, (***) ***-**** Name is Pam Harbison. Thank you
 ''(Edited by Moderator: phone number removed - c)'' 
== This happened
==
Every time Firefox opened
== I downloaded some plugins
==
== Firefox version
==
3.6.3
== Operating system
==
Windows 7
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
== Plugins installed
==
*-np-mswmp
*Default Plug-in
*Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
*3.0.50106.0
*Office Live Update v1.3
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