This was my exact experience. Last night I also tried to watch something on HBO Now and my fan was whirring so loudly I just stopped and switched back to Chrome

This was my exact experience. Last night I also tried to watch something on HBO Now and my fan was whirring so loudly I just stopped and switched back to Chrome. In the case of HBO it was a flash video however I had the same experience on YouTube using HTML5. It was the final straw for a weekend of testing both the desktop and mobile applications. The thing that bugged me about the mobile app was that coming from Chrome it didn't seem to have the same level of integration with my phone. For instance I'd google search something, get the result which included a map, and then the map was not clickable. I expected to be able to tap it and have the map open in Google Maps but no. It was a static image. I had similar experiences with other apps like Twitter, Instagram, and Redfin. I expected a link to the mobile site to launch the installed app on my phone but it never did. I looked around a bit in the settings and couldn't find anything to do it. I'm sure there's a solution for it but I got tired of poking around and went back to what just worked.