I don't know what it is with Adobe Flash on the Macintosh platform but it's a CPU hog. Safari is my main browser and any page utilizing Flash causes the spinning beach ball for a number of seconds, rendering the computer almost useless until Flash is good and ready to relinquish the CPU.
Waiting for pages to load was more than I could bear. Some searching unearthed the Click2Flash plug-in for Safari which inserts placeholders for every Flash element on a page.
No more waiting to load and if you want to use a Flash object (such as the YouTube video player) just click the word "Flash" in the placeholder to enable it.
Click2Flash has options to load a single Flash object on a webpage, all of them, or whitelist the entire site so Flash objects are always visible.
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