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Flash player melting my MacBook Pro?

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
August 23, 2009
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Dear Adobe,

Why is it when I view any Flash content in any browser my MacBook Pro gets very dangerously hot and the fans sound like a jet engine?

I purchased my MacBook Pro in February of 2008, and had expected that this was an issue that would have been fixed well before now.

I can watch a full 2 hour movie or use most of my applications and not hear any fan noise, or feel any change in heat.

Yet when I go to YouTube to watch a 30 second video, or view any web page with an annoying Flash ad banner on it, my computer gets so hot that I feel it will melt my computer.

I don't want to have to fear turning my computer into a fire hazard by visiting YouTube or similar, or worse do so unknowingly due to a Flash popup/popunder/banner ad.

There is no question it is the Flash player that is causing this to happen.

It happens to every Mac I've viewed Flash on.

My friends have the same issue.

Will there be a fix for this in the near future, maybe along with the release of Snow Leopard?

Is this in any way ruining my computer?

Something like this that causes a computer to get dangerously hot in a matter of seconds surely should be top priority.

- C. Lavius

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infinitus88

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a good way is to disable your flash, and load it only when needed! check this post out!

http://techietrick.blogspot.com/2010/05/stop-your-macbook-fan-from-spinning.html

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robo_boxx

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Hello fellows .

I've tried new version of Flash Player 10.1 What I can say, with Safari (version which I use 4.0.4) it is a total disaster. Safari crashes every time I want to watch a video on youtube.com. With Firefox things a little bit better. I can see some improvement, because CPU usage now are lower in some websites. But it's still a problem with bloomberg.com; bmw.tv, here are just few webpages where the problem remains, the usage of CPU skyrockets to more than 100%

My system: Macbook1.1 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger)

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Madhatter_

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I'm thinking it could be a tiger issue. I have no crashes on youtube with safari or bloomberg.com using 10.1 on Snow Leopard.

I do have issues with Revision3.com which seems to be acknowledged by support forum

Anyhow 10.1 seems to be a very minor improvement. Wish Apple and Adobe would get together to get allow GPU acceleration to work.

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gantdelatexs

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I'm having the same issue on my late 2007 Macbook (and early 2008 Macbook aswell), the CPU % load for the flashplayer is never under 70% for a simple youtube video, or any commercial that is on mostly every websites now. Will Adobe ever fix that ffs ?! I've been waiting for over 2 years now and nothing changed. I'm SO glad Apple doesn't want flash on the iPhone, otherwise the battery would be sucked in under 30mins. Maybe if Adobe would move their ass they would change their mind. W/E, as I can see, the problem is there for a few years now, and they haven't done anything particular to fix that.

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clavvviusAuthor

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You guys are right.

There did seem to be a slight improvement, but it's still turning my MBP into a fire hazard.

However - GOOD NEWS -

Refer to this post: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/11/17/adobe-launches-flash-player-10-1-prerelease-build/

You can download it here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

I'm going to try out this pre-release and report back after some testing.

gantdelatexs, I have Flash on my iPhone and it works great to be honest, both with the YouTube app that comes with it and Flash video.

10.1 could be the answer we've all been waiting for...

- C. Lavius

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missginalee

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Hey,

I have had the same problem for a while now. My black Macbook late 2007 edition cannot keep quiet when a web page with flash content is displayed.

Now trying out the latest pre-release and will report back whether it persists or not.

Cheers...

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slowtoes

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There's already a bug filed for this which has seen a lot of activity already:

> Poor performance on Mac OS X (Created: 11/01/08 03:57 PM)

> https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-890

Reading the comments, it seems Flash Player's developers are well aware of the issue but Adobe's sights are on the mobile market at the moment. You would think they could spare a few developers to work this one out...

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clavvviusAuthor

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Thanks guys for the responses.

Adobe, a response from you however would be nice.

This post will live on until you do so.

I have found a somewhat unfortunate, temporary fix for this.

It's called "ClickToFlash" and it disables Flash altogether unless you do as the name says.

It is unprofessional of you Adobe to ignore this very dangerous flaw in your player.

I hope for your sake you guys are actively working on this.

It would be a bad thing if someone's computer melted from the inside or house burnt down because of your Flash player!

A response on the matter is the LEAST you could do.

Maybe there is one and I've missed it...?

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Anonymous

This is an issue I cannot tackle on forums, sorry.

I recommend you file ONE jira public player bug and then have everybody else vote on the bug.A bug has to have FOUR votes to be looked at internally.

Get details here:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/tmccauley_fplayer_bugbase.html

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clavvviusAuthor

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BWolfe,

I appreciate you taking the time to reply, however your response is not acceptable.

If what you're suggesting is to submit a bug report, for a bug that was submitted over 11 months ago, for an issue that is MUCH more critical than some random bug ... you are proving that you, as a voice of Adobe, are not taking this issue seriously.

Since you are unable to tackle this issue yourself on these forums, can you have someone respond who can?

I should note that I have just updated to the latest version of Flash Player that is compatible with Snow Leopard (10.0.32.18) and the problem still remains.

All I'm asking for is that you acknowledge the issue and that it is currently being worked on.

Thank you.

-C .Lavius

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Oliver Georgi

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Yes it is a nightmare - not only MacBook Pro is having the high CPU load problem with Flash.

Watching a small Flash Video on my MacBook (late 2008, 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, Snow Leopard 10.6) having newest Flash Player Plugin 10.0.32.18 installed pushs the Flash Player Process with Safari > 70% - compared to my older Windows PC (2.13GHz Core2, 4GB RAM, Vista, ATI X1050) where the same Video file takes < 20% but including the process for Firefox. A funny thing - using Firefox on Mac and hey - the load is lower.

So better you compare yourself

Firefox Vista

Safari Mac

Firefox Mac

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slowtoes

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Keep up the pressure clavvvius!

This issue has been around for years and there doesn't seem to be a peep from Adobe about it. Highly frustrating, considering the ubiquity of flash on the web and the growing number of Mac users.

Hmm .... doing something like http://fixoutlook.org/ might wake them up ...

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clavvviusAuthor

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Dear Adobe,

Please respond to my post.

I will keep this thread active until I get some answers.

-C. Lavius

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Anonymous

This issue is bothering me as well for quite a while now and it seems that Adobe is not, in any way, capable of solving this problem. There are so many Apple users worldwide who have to suffer from this HUGE bug in the Adobe Flash Player for Mac and Adobe is not doing ANYTHING to solve this. I think only public pressure can bring Adobe to put their emphasis on this issue.

So far we are, with many others, the stupid ones who have to suffer from this problem. One other aspect is, although it might sound weird, the environment, because High CPU usage uses more power. Adobe does not seem to care a lot about such an axtensive waste of electricity.

What is it Adobe that you just don't act upon this issue? It is a major problem for such a long time now?

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