Last night Brave ate more than 3GB and froze my laptop. Today the browser ate about 2GB and almost froze my laptop again. I think this is an 1.18.75 issue. I still use Windows7 x64. Does anyone have the same problem? How can this issue be reproduced? I just opened YandexToloka, Instagram YouTube …

Hello @NotDeveloper go to brave://settings/system make sure this off Continue running background apps when Brave is closed restart brave and see if it get better if not ? disable all extension and try in private mode

This is different thinks. The browser was dead, so these processes continued to work. This is some kind of RAM leak in the last released update.

Same issue, Win10, Brave v 1.18.75. Started 12/13/20, Several other threads about this issue.

[image] Brave running slow, crashing Desktop Support Also my experience, I started a separate thread recently about this happening after the latest update. [image] Brave with 12 Processes and 500Mb Desktop Support More or less, yes, it’s norm…

Works fine for a bit, then just continues chewing up memory/cpu and then crashes.

which step you used just disabled the running in background or disable extension and use private mode?

Running in background didn’t make a difference, but disabling extensions seems to help some. I only had two anyway.

what about using private mode or even create new profile or last but not least try the following close brave and try this [image] How Do I Use Command Line Flags in Brave? Windows macOS/Linux Opening Brave Using Command Prompt To open Brave With Command Prompt: Quit Brave Open Comm…

Brave 1.18.75 and RAM issue

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