Google Chrome overheating Macbook Pro.

I know this isn't a solution, and that this question is old, but I am experiencing this as well, only worse. My Macbook Pro will actually shutdown for thermal protection if I use Google Chrome. I installed SMC and I can watch the temp of my computer quickly rise when I have a few Chrome windows open. It gets to around 212C, and then shuts down. No other applications cause this issue, even games. When I go to the Activity Monitor, it shows that for every tab in Chrome, there is a process running using up quite a few resources. It's disappointing, because I like Chrome, but when I use Safari instead, I can have many tabs open with no issue. My MBP is several years old, but I have taken the time to take it apart and blow out all the dust that has collected over the years, but it hasn't remedied the issue. If anyone has a solution to this issue, I'd love to hear it!

Go to the Chrome store and download the extension: The Great Suspender. This will allow you automatically or manually suspend open tabs you are not currently viewing. I used it to manually suspend tabs until I found the one causing the problem. I was at a logon window on one of my tabs and it was using 35% of resources! Once I logged in it stopped! Not sure why that was. I will keep an eye out for what other tabs may cause this, but for now it was just that one. The Great Suspender - Chrome Web Store

It's Chrome, lots of problems with it, it's too invasive.

Uninstall Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95319

Google root level auto-updater: to uninstall that (provided you have no Google software on the machine)

https://support.google.com/installer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100386

..Step by Step to fix your Mac

Try a SMC reset.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

If that does not solve the problem, open Activity Monitor, set to 'All processes' and '% CPU' to read values from high to low. This may identify applications that are causing the fan speed acceleration in conjunction with Chrome.

I use Firefox with no difficulties.

Ciao.

Firefox rocks, more extensions, customization, themes and personas than Chrome spyware anyway.

Safari is terrible too. Sort of like the IE of OS X . 🙂

ds store greetings: Sounds fishy to me.

Ciao.

I was having this problem and it turned out I had too many Chrome extensions installed. The only one I really use is the awesome "OneTab", so I turned the others off and this problem got a lot better.

same thing with me! weird!