Restaurant City and other Facebook games slow

I bought my wife a fancy new MBA for xmas with the plan of inheriting her old MBP. Alas all is not well as one of her main uses for it is playing all those flash games on facebook, namely Restaurant City & Pack Rat, but the performance is plain ordinary. Just a simple rollover on a button takes a good second to appear, drop down menues can take two or 3 seconds to activate, and animations are like they're in slow motion. I realise I bought the entry level model of MBA and I know all the history of Flash on the Mac, but is this really the best I can expect from a brand new machine? I've downloaded the latest beta version of Flash (10.2), it helped only marginally. I've also noticed Firefox seems to run the games a lot faster than Safari does. Still nowhere near what our 3yr old 2.4ghz Macbook Pro runs them at. Activity monitor has Flash running at between 80%-140% CPU with safari. Firefox runs it at around 60%-80% which seems to reflect the performance difference I'm seeing.
Is this as good as it gets?

Hi Aaron,
Try emptying the Safari cache more often. Command + Option + E or from the Safari menu bar click Safari / Empty Cache.
Make sure there isn't a Safari Extension slowing things down. Go to Safari / Preferences then select the Extensions tab. You can turn Extensions off there to test.
And, make sure it's not a Safari unsupported third party app causing the lag time. Troubleshooting help here.
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Also with Safari... go to Safari / Preferences - Security. Make sure Java is enabled.
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