Streamed video causes lag

Ever since I updated my flash player to v 10.1.102.64 I've been having issues with watching flash streams. The issue is that whenever I watch a stream it completely kills my computers performance which means I pretty much can't play anything while watching a stream. I've tried watching livestreams, ustreams, own3d.tv-streams, blip videos and youtube videos with pretty much the same result. Some streams seem to be better than others, but I haven't been able to find out what actually makes a stream better.
I'm fairly sure what's happening is that the streams are, for some reason, eating the performance of my gfx cards since windows shows both cpu- and memory load remaining pretty much constant. When opening a stream I also get the sort of small flicker across the screens that you sometimes get when changing graphics settings. After that my ingame fps just plummets and the game feels really sluggish.
I did not have this issue before I updated my flash player and run out of ideas on how to fix it without going back on an older flash player.
I'm currently running 2x ATI Radeon HD5850 with crossfire, dual monitor setup, i7 860 and windows 7 64bit.

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