Thank you @queenofthepen and @Dance .
I’ve shared your report with our performance team and they are asking whether it’s possible for you to check if Google Chrome (https://www.google.com/chrome/) is also similarly slow on your machine.
If Chrome is fast, then it’s definitely a Brave problem. If Chrome is similarly slow, then we have to look in to the common code that’s shared between Chrome and Brave.
I do not use Google Chrome. As an alternative, I will use Firefox, which runs just fine.
It may be worth giving this script a try and seeing if this resolves the problem. If that works I suspect it is an issue with your dot files / cache.
SPB Start-Private-Browser : https://gist.github.com/henri/34f5452525ddc3727bb66729114ca8b4
I tried the scripts but nothing changed. However, I do appreciate your help.
Once you have installed start the Brave bowser instance using the command below
~/bin/start-private-browser
A new browser will start up. See if that newly opened browser is slow?
Keep in mind that the new browser which opened is private and when you close it all history will be gone!!!
But see if this works… and report back!
That command doesn’t work. The results are: No such file or directory
Sorry wrong command.
Try this :
~/bin/start-private-browser.bash
An easier way to try a fresh profile without installing any additional software is to start Brave from the terminal like this:
brave-browser-stable --user-data-dir=/home/oem/brave-temp-profile
This will open the browser without any of your settings, extensions, bookmarks, etc. Then you can visit the slow websites and see if there’s any difference in speed/performance.
Note that this will not delete any of your Brave data, it creates a new browsing profile in the /home/oem/brave-temp-profile/ directory (which you can delete after you close the browser).
@queenofthepen seems like you have not installed the start-private-browser system system. Visit the SPB site and follow the installation instructions or try the suggestion of starting Brave as described above by @fmarier
I followed all the steps on the SPB site. I found that I did not have git installed. So, I used the install script and this was the result. As you can see, it did not complete the git install due to skipping the configuration file ‘main/binary-i396/Packages’ because it doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’. What does that mean?
oem@oem-HP-Compaq-Elite-8300-CMT:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
For release candidates, go to https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/candidate .
More info: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/git-core-ubuntu-ppa-jammy.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/git-core-ubuntu-ppa-jammy.list
Adding key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/git-core-ubuntu-ppa.gpg with fingerprint F911AB184317630C59970973E363C90F8F1B6217
Hit:1 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease
Hit:2 https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Get:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu jammy InRelease [24.6 kB]
Get:8 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages [3,872 B]
Get:9 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages [3,868 B]
Get:10 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main Translation-en [2,088 B]
Fetched 34.4 kB in 1s (25.9 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’
N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’
Hello,
Not sure why you need to add a repository to install git.
Have you tried :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
You may also want to install fish and screen while you’re at it!
sudo apt-get install fish screen
Then once you run the install you should be able to start a clean copy.
Also, you may want to try installing Brave again as you are having issues with your repositories.
There is from memory an install script available for Brave on Linux.
Looking at the SPB website there are instructions under the compatibility section describing how to set up Brave on Linux mint. I am not sure which distribution you are using (maybe Ubuntu) but those instructions are worth a try. And that may even solve your problem anyway?
I ran ‘sudo apt-get update’ earlier today. This is the issue I continually encounter after updating, which prevents me from running additional scripts successfully:
N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’
N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘https://brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’
I’ve also run the ‘apt --fix-broken install’ command, but that didn’t work either.
You can ignore these “N: Skipping acquire” messages. They are not errors, but rather expected informational messages.
You may want to check this Brave community post 
:
Keep in mind this post (linked above) is discussing the Brave problem. From your apt output I suspect you are having issues with various repositories. It may be worth cleaning up any repositories which you are not using.
@fmarier is correct this is more of a warning assuming you are running 64bit.
You will be able to check your systems architecture by running
uname -m
You will on 64 but system if you see something like the following output :
x86_64
I am running x86_64. Thank you! I’m going to check out that other forum to see if there’s another solution to my Brave problem. I’ll post here if I find the solution. You all have been absolutely wonderful.