Description of the issue: Over the past week, Brave has started consuming an unusually high amount of RAM, causing noticeable slowdowns and, in some cases, “out of memory” errors. This happens during normal daily usage for work. Brave is my main browser and I had no issues until recently. The probl…

And there’s been no fix for it in any future updates?

They’re working on it. Some bugs take time, but don’t forget there’s only a team of so many developers also working on other bugs as well.

Mac user but I’ve had similiar problems. macOS 26.1, 2025 Macbook AIR ,10 Core M4, 32 GB RAM, on-board storage 1 TB, External 8 TB Issue occurs when using stand alone Leo.ai. RAM pressure is 20% Leo is acting like most LLM that are on over-stressed system. Low RAM + Slow Processor = Crazy Behavior…

I’m planning to go Linux in the future and I worry about the High RAM usage and Performance issues carrying over to future versions of all browser builds.

This latest update should fix the memory leaks, right?

@Leofan Scroll down to Leo AI (uptime status) at: ‘ https://status.brave.app ’

Hoping this new update is going to fix the memory leaks, maybe speed things up.

No, memory leaks haven’t been fixed, or at least one specific leak where refreshing the page doesn’t actually release memory: [image] That’s example.com, a known website we currently use to test the memory leak. Open the browser task manager, then look for Tab: Example Domain as seen in this scre…

I just wish the browser was faster and ate up less memory and tasks.

High RAM usage and performance slowdown on Windows 11 (recent issue Dic 2025)

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Please review the posts at:

‘Extremely high RAM usage (~12 GB for ~15 tabs) and Memory Saver “strict” mode not working’

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