The browser has become excruciatingly slow. Even a simple webpage take forever to load and there is a lot of lag when I try to switch tabs. Also, Youtube videos play after 10-15 seconds and there is a significant lag in going fullscreen on Youtube. I searched on community and tried these things– D…

@anantaram , When you created the new profile to test, did you close the original profile window that was open?

What do you have your history set at? Have you tried clearing out your history and cookies? It could be that cookies are still opened at other sites causing a slow down in your network.

Any reason for disabling Hardware acceleration? Measuring Brave performance Click on ≡ and More Tools and Task manager to show cpu usage.

Yup. It didnt work. After that I even deleted the original profile and tried again. But still nothing changed.

I resetted the whole browser dude. Deleted browsing history, cookies, caches and removed every addons. The problem still persists

as an avid user of Chrome who is getting tired of the telemetry and Ad campaigns, I was eager to give Brave a try. Sadly, I experience similar symptoms as [anantaram], with Brave becoming a huge memory hog. Loaded with the exact number of extensions, having the same amount of tabs and websites open…

I have also noticed that Brave slows down with each release. A long time ago (approx. 2 years) Brave was by far the fastest browser; that’s why I switched to Brave at the time. Today Brave is only mediocre when it comes to speed. Instead of cramming more and more functions into Brave like for ex…

IPFS won’t impact performance, not every new feature impacts browsing perf. I would test Brave in a new profile (Try Brave Beta, no extensions) see how it performs. @Johann

Try using with no extensions as a base. see if performance is okay. Which extensions do you have? @MilosCoxen

well, I have reset Brave to the original settings and removed all extensions and did the same with Chrome. Result: Brave ‘base’ uses about 1½ times the memory as Chrome, which increases with each extension added. Strange… For the mentioned comparison I added following extensions to Brave - (Note: I…

Brave has become unbearably slow

Brave Browser

Mattches August 2, 2021, 4:51pm 15

@anantaram I’m glad that it is working at least a little better. Will be keeping this thread open for now just in case. Would also like to direct @MilosCoxen to this conversation regarding Brave vs Chrome memory usage:

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Brave has become unbearably slow

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