Safari plugins occupy a lot of CPU

Hi,
Since I have upgraded to snow leopard, safari plugins (flash) occupy a lot of CPU and the fans work like crazy.
Whenever I have loaded a web page with many graphics, or listen to web-radio, after a while my CPU is maxed out.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
K.

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