I’m experiencing unusually high RAM usage in the latest Brave browser, and the built-in memory management features don’t seem to work as expected.
With only ~15 tabs open, Brave regularly consumes around 12gb of ram. I’ve set the memory management / Memory Saver to the strictest / most aggressive mode
@Wizard_Mag1 rather than OS task manager, you may want to look at Brave’s task manager. It would also be very critical to pay attention to content type, extensions, and Shields settings.
Even with memory saver off, you wouldn’t see consistent high use. So what is it that’s running high?
And more important than that is to ask if you’re actually experiencing any issues from RAM. I mean, you’re at 80% total. That’s not bad. RAM is meant to be used. There’s no benefit in not keeping things available.
Computers, browsers, and other apps are designed to make as much use of RAM as possible. They free it up as it’s needed.
Also, Strict/Maximum only makes tabs inactive faster. It doesn’t immediately make them inactive and halt all RAM usage as soon as you swap. It does not automatically discard all tabs, but only ones that are not active.
If a tab is doing any of the following it will not be discarded:
Running scripts or heavy sites like YouTube, Reddit, X, Discord, or Gmail
Using extensions
Containing media players
Being part of a tab group that the user recently opened
Marked by Brave or an extension as important
Even when a tab is discarded, Chromium keeps a footprint for the process until it is reused, so the drop is not always dramatic. In addition, sites can easily take 500 to 1000 megabytes each if they use React, multiple tracking scripts, or heavy graphics.
Are they on equal footing? What I mean is, are you using the same exact extensions and extension settings? Ad Blocking? Same or similar content? About the same length of time they have been open?
The higher memory would indicate that there are things being loaded and used on the screen. I’m not sure if it might be tracking scripts that Shields is blocking or if it could be something else. Whatever is going on, it’s active. And since it’s active, it wouldn’t be hibernated.
I’d be curious if you were to test in a Private window, if you notice much difference. If you didn’t change settings this would have it running with extensions disabled, but also cookies cleared.
Also if you were to disable Shields or change the Shields settings, any impact?
Do you have Graphics Acceleration enabled at brave://settings/system? If not, try to enable it and see if it helps.
Lastly, how much time are you giving after opening? If it all literally was just open then it’s going to be working harder as it was loading content. Then it tends to settle down.
-Note- (noticed after typing in all of the above…)
If all of your Binance tabs are continuously active with live charts and WebSockets, Memory Saver may not be able to discard them at all, which means you get the overhead without much benefit.
Which also begs the question,. is this only happening with Binance? From what I’m seeing in the screenshot, Gmail, Brave Community, and perhaps others aren’t having issues. All the high usage tabs seem to be Binance.
Brave Browser using 158.61 MB (162,412 KB) [Brave using less memory]
GPU Process
MSFT Edge using 215.2 MB
Brave Browser using 1,445.36 MB (1,480,048 KB) [Brave using GPU for Binance?]
Microsoft Edge is using uBlock Origin. I would want to know if Brave Browser has the Manifest V2 uBlock Origin extension Enabled? brave://settings/extensions/v2
Extension is the same, ad blocking using build in brave, in edge ublockorigin, same content, and switch to use edge for rest of the time and yes usage of memory consumption in edge way better than in brave one to one content, did not use manifest extensions in brave
