Ideally these extensions should improve. We have no control on how they are developed, only hope they’re optimized for CPU/Ram. Keeping the an eye on the problematic extensions and finding alternatives, and limiting the amount of extensions in use (the more you use, the more system resources it’ll use).
Even with my current setup (32G of Ram, High end CPU/GPU), In my case I’ll only have 2-3 extensions enabled. I understand it’s not realistic for everyone, but I try to keep Brave resources in check.
Some extensions have improved since the 2020 report , which you can compare to 2021:
then how come edge chromium doesn’t have the same problems if it’s built off chromium?? I understand there’s probably some underlying issue but it surely can’t be with the extensions right? Edge has the same extensions without eating up CPU and burning my laptop down.
It really is a pity. I really do want to use brave but this is pretty much a make or break.
I’ve also seen issues like this on posts from a year or 2 back. So this issue isn’t exactly new either.
I have an Intel(R) UHD Graphics as my GPU. When I watch a YouTube video, the usage of the RAM increases by like 200, while the CPU also increases a bit, I also had Hardware Acceleration disabled. Any way to improve this?
I am kind of disappointed that Brave still hasn’t fixed the issue. The high CPU usage on Youtube has been a long complaining issue from many users. My CPU fans spinning likes crazy whenever I land on a youtube video. Please treat this as a P1 or P2 issue. I am using Brave because it used to be a resource friendly browser and have been using it way before they offer BAT token.
The efficiency of the browser vendors’ GPU implementations depend more on the driver and the type of [browser] optimization than on raw hardware power.
During a 1080p60fps video, Intel HD graphics 620 usage goes up to 45% while my dedicated AMD Radeon R5 m430 card usage goes up to 25%.
I’ve also tried forcing hardware acceleration to be enabled and CPU usage still spikes all the way to 70% before averaging on 60%. In this case, GPU usage is also still at around 30% on my dedicated.
