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Shockwave flash kept crashing in Google Chrome when the fan was running loudly. Could this possibly be the culprit? Anyone with some insight?

I could still watch videos and stuff, but I'd have that banner at the top of my pages saying it crashed.

could be, it might've crashed but not removed the thread/process completely so it was still consuming resources.
 
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