Maverick overheats CPUs on (old?) MacBooks

Hi there,
I have a "13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008" MacBook, on which i installed Maverick. Since then, the fans are continuously running. Even when i close the laptop for the night, I find it quite warm in the morning, like if in his supposedly "sleep" state, it actually had a rough night... Seen many other similar experiences on forum, here and there. And no, any reseting does not do anything better. Activity monitor says CPU's use is less than 25%. Kind of hopeless, any soon-to-come fix from Apple? Thank you for reading.

Charly --
Hawaiian Starman has these suggestions for you:
Might be an outdated Flash plug-in causing the CPU ramp up.
Ask the OP check their Flash version via http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/.
Current stable version is 10.0.45.2.
Also, could be duplicate fonts. Disabling the extra fonts could make a big difference.
Check both of these, and then report back, OK?

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Discontinued
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Yes
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