Why does my CPU overheat playing online flash videos?

Last year my CPU would melt playing youtube videos in firefox browser. My research found that it was
a compatibility problem between firefox and adobe. So I switched to chrome and problem fixed.
Now the last couple months (this year) its doing it again but not on youtube but rather on facebook or
any other site that uses flash embedded videos. It screams to 100c in minutes.
I have updated drivers, cleaned my cpu etc etc. Now in searching  the forums here it seems
Im not the only one experiencing this and all the questions are marked answered yet I have not
found an answer that works ie disable hardware acceleration.
I am running AMD dual core with GeForce 2gig vid card.
Any thoughts/solutions?

How much RAM do you have installed?  What model Mac do you have?

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