Spinning Beach ball while in Safari

I had an issue where I was trying to view a video from a website and received a message stating Adobe was working slow and do I want to quit. I said yes but then the beach ball appeared and no matter what I did (after allowing it to spin for a little while, thinking it would stop) I couldn't get out of the screen. I tried viewing other browser windows I had open, but still had the spinning beach ball. I couldn't open Finder or anything. On a PC, I could go to task manager and quit an application. How do I do that on a Mac? I tried CTL, ALT, Delete, or CTL, ALT, Command and whatever other combination I could think of. Finally I gave up and pressed the power button. I received the message asking if I wanted to Shut Down or Cancel. I said yes to shut it down but it didn't and the ball kept spinning. Finally I pressed the power button and held it until the computer shut down manually. I don't like doing that but I didn't know what else to do. Can someone tell me what I should do in a situation like this? I've had the spinning beach ball a couple times in the past week but for some reason today, it just wouldn't stop and I couldn't do anything on the computer.
Thank you

After solving the spinning beach ball: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html go to Adobe's site and download the latest Flash Player at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and get the uninstaller at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html Uninstall the Flash Player and install the latest version, repair permissions, restart, and give Safari another try.

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