OSX questions and apps

Fallen god · 2 Nov 2013 at 11:29

Hey guys I have a few questions ;

Why does flash use so much resources on OSX, on my windows machine it didn't seem to make much of a difference but on OSX it heated things up pretty badly and battery life dropped from 8 hours to 2. This is using Chrome.

What's a good app to monitor temps, I saw a lot of people recommend I stats pro but I couldn't install it on Mavericks.

What's a goood Gmail client, read good things about sparrow but they got brought out so I'm not too sure.

Finally what's a decent app to change fan speeds, I have noticed the machine likes to stay super quiet even under load so I would like to just kick it up a bit when I play games, won't play anything new really just source games and mine craft ( only started mine craft yesterday and it's a lot of fun).

Thanks

Cuchulain · 2 Nov 2013 at 11:43

I don't think it's just flash, Netflix (Silverlight instead of Flash) does the same on my MBP, I could watch a film, browse for half an hour or so and I'm down from 100% to almost zero.

Tunney · 2 Nov 2013 at 19:42

It's because Adobe coded it badly and don't seem to want to fix it.

I have the 'click to load plugin' option in Chrome turned on. Fewer annoying adverts and improves battery life immensely.

Fallen god · 2 Nov 2013 at 20:19

Tunney said:
It's because Adobe coded it badly and don't seem to want to fix it.

I have the 'click to load plugin' option in Chrome turned on. Fewer annoying adverts and improves battery life immensely.

Yeah I have turned this on now and it helps a lot. Was just shocking how bad.