Unity Web Player (Firefox Plugin) hogging resources

Unity Engine
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Ok, so I downloaded Unity Web Player for the upcoming Family Guy Online game. I noticed that my computer was running awfully hard. The battery was draining much faster than normal and the fan was running nonstop and the computer was also hot while I was doing nothing, which is unusual.

I’m using a MacBook Pro. My MBP only gets hot if it’s on my lap or i’m playing a flash game (oh gotta love flash) or a major game (StarCraft II, etc.).

I remembered installing Unity Web Player about a day or two ago. The speed of my MBP wasn’t effected, but the noise, the fans, and the battery life was severely effected. I checked my Activity Monitor when I was not browsing the web and just on my desktop and Unity Web Player (Firefox Plugin) was using almost 50% CPU all the time.

I uninstalled Unity Web Player and my fan is going under 2000 rpms and my computer is only 60 degrees Celsius. Any ideas what could be the problem?

I’m running Lion with 8GB RAM, two SSDs and 2.25 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, if you needed my specifications.

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Hi,
The fix to this problem is easy. After Playing online games the ‘Unity Flash Plugin’ stays open draining battery incredible fast. The fix to this problem is really easy.

  1. Open Activity Monitor (located at /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor)
  2. Go to the ‘Energy’ tab
  3. Look For ‘Unity Plugin’, or something similar, it might be highlighted in red
  4. Double click it and press quit
  5. Done :smile: