Hi Matilda, no not hot, no crashing or blue screen...web pages come up quick its just the tv streaming is sort of jerky ,shadowy, bad quality, speech is fine though.I tried deleting all history, cookies , disabling hardware accelerator...the netbook is 4 months old.i did a factory reset as tv streaming kept sticking ..i had this before and fixed it but cant remember what i did lol. uninstalled flash re installed flash ...not sure wwhat to do now ?