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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
overheating when watching youtube
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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 1259879" data-attributes="member: 38928"><p>I agree that dust may be a factor....however.... what you're also seeing the the result of Flash using loads of CPU cycles (it's built into Chrome)</p><p></p><p>As an experiment why not disable Flash in Safari and try running YouTube in Safari, it forces it to drop to HTML5</p><p>There's a good post on <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome" target="_blank">Daring Fireball</a> and links from there to other sites. Read it all first. It's easy enough.</p><p>It's improved things no end on my sons White MacBook of a similar age to yours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 1259879, member: 38928"] I agree that dust may be a factor....however.... what you're also seeing the the result of Flash using loads of CPU cycles (it's built into Chrome) As an experiment why not disable Flash in Safari and try running YouTube in Safari, it forces it to drop to HTML5 There's a good post on [URL="http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/flash_free_and_cheating_with_google_chrome"]Daring Fireball[/URL] and links from there to other sites. Read it all first. It's easy enough. It's improved things no end on my sons White MacBook of a similar age to yours. [/QUOTE]
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