Description of the issue: Brave Browser takes over 70GB of ram in a lot of occasions sometimes getting the ram usage to over 90 percent while the ram capacity in my pc is 96GB I have a lot of opened tabs but most of them are inactive yet when I look task manager most of the inactive ones are tak…

@mike6 [image] 100+ tasks in Brave, "Hot" Browser Desktop Support Can you try enabling Memory Saver to see if there’s an improvement? It frees up memory from inactive tabs and can be found here: brave://settings/system

What extensions/websites are you using/displaying? Having 2G per process seems unusual.

The fact that you have more than 70GB of RAM on your PC is awesome man. :laughing: btw, are you crypto mining via extension by any chance? if not.. I suggest, install uBlock Origin on Brave. Settings > Extension > Manifest V2 extensions > Enable uBlock Origin.

bad suggestion, another extension won’t fix this

I do have memory saver on sadly [image]

I’m not mining anything on my computer at all, I also do have uBlock Origin

[image] [image] These are all of my enabled extensions

Well, it’s better than have no suggestion at all. :man_shrugging: I suspected it might be related to crypto mining. So, adding a blocking script in uBlock Origin is a good way to troubleshoot and see if that resolves the issue. I mean, “Cryptojacking”. What is your suggestion then? fanboy

@mike6 “BB” > Brave Browser What I would do, in the following order: Disable BB setting: Continue where you left off Disable and Remove Extensions: BlockSite Block Websites & Stay Focused Return Youtube Dislike uBlock Origin All Translate services but 1 - use only 1 Translate extension All VPN…

is there any way to save my browser data as a backup before clearing it? as I’m truly worried to clear something important or something I might not be able to get back as I haven’t cleared my browsing data for probably 2 years or more.

Brave browser is taking about 70GB of RAM for me, sometimes more

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Brave browser is taking about 70GB of RAM for me, sometimes more

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