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Fred Barker
8,758 PointsTreehouse videos, Chrome and Macbook Pro overheating
Hey everyone, I've noticed that when I watch Treehouse videos in Chrome instead of Safari, my Macbook Pro (Retina, early-2014 model w/16GB RAM) runs extremely hot, with the CPU measuring a temperature of around 200°F. When I watch in Safari, it runs at about 125°F, which is right around normal. (As I type this with nothing else open, it's at 116°F.) For the longest time I thought this was a Chrome issue, it being a notorious resource hog but tonight I decided to do a little more research.
I tried watching 3 videos on each of the following for 2 minutes — Code School, Tuts+, Vimeo, YouTube and Treehouse. For all other videos besides the ones on Treehouse, both Chrome and Safari make my machine run at about the same temperature, between 125°F and 135°F. But every time I open a video in Chrome on Treehouse my machine sounds like it's about to take off and it gets extremely hot to the touch, and as I mentioned before, the CPU hovers around 200°F. The overall effect of this is that my Macbook loses a lot of power at quite a rapid pace.
The only place where I can seem to get my MBPr anywhere close to that hot while using Chrome is when I'm watching Treehouse videos. Anyone else having a similar problem?
Fred Barker
8,758 PointsHi Jonathan, so I disabled flash as per the link above. Videos played for a couple minutes on Code School ran my MBP at about 138 degrees, same on Tuts+, Vimeo at about 135 and then Treehouse got the machine up to 203 degrees after about 50 seconds before I stopped the video.
FWIW, I downloaded Chrome Canary because I've read in a handful of places that they're making a strong push to improve its performance, RAM usage, etc. I still get the same overheating problem in Canary (which is at version 47) exclusively when watching vids on Treehouse.
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Paul Ward
53 PointsHaving the same problem with Chrome and Windows 10 (60 odd Degrees Celcius). I can play Udemy HTML5 videos VLC videos (mp4, mkv, avi etc) and most other online content without any issues. I'm just going to find out if it works on Firefox better
Jonathan Johnson
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 952 PointsJonathan Johnson
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 952 PointsInteresting, thanks for all that information.
Would you mind attempting to disable Chrome's built in flash plugin and re-performing your test?
http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/24/turn-off-flash-chrome/