The Adobe AIR Application Installer seems to launch automatically. I hadn't decided whether or not I wanted to try the app at that point, but I definitely didn't want to see my CPU usage shoot to 100% and have my browser lock up. So I decided to force quit the installer and close the website. Maybe it's a great app, but the AIR experience immediately kills it, for me at least. Chrome on OSX btw
We spent quite a lot of time working on Adobe Air's CPU issue. I think many crappy air based apps out there are like that and give the impression that Adobe Air always uses up CPU power, but we've been testing and optimizing this with several people for last month and the cpu usage stays around 0.1% most of the times, so please feel free to try again. Thanks!
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#11The problem isn't related to the app itself, but moreso the way that AIR Application Installer launches immediately when I navigate to joint.im — before I even click the "download" button. I find it intrusive, considering Application Installer hogs my CPU (and I'm not sure if there's any workaround for that). Application Installer runs in the background and consumes 100% CPU even if I navigate away from the page. So then it has to be quit via Activity Monitor. I'm not sure if this is only an issue with my AIR install or if it happens for everyone on OSX.