Okay, so I’ve been using Brave for a very long time, and recently I installed it on my new laptop. Since then, the memory saver hasn’t been working. Ive set it to Maximum, then too none of my tabs arent getting inactive even after a very long time, my ram utilisation reaches upto 90% then too brave dosent make the tabs inactive, i saw a thread where it was written the Maximum saver works when the ram reaches 70% and the tabs are inactive for 30 minutes but i work on my laptop for around 10 hours continously then too the tabs dosent get inactive which im not using.
Brave Version: 1.89.137 Chromium: 147.0.7727.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 (Build 26200.8246)
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- Brave Browser version numbers
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I’ve edited and included the Brave browser version and OS version numbers
I’m sorry I couldn’t understand what you were trying to say.
Interesting, that the other Brave Community member discovered a fix - re energy: Plugging in the laptop power cord.
Memory Saver ← re energy … and I was hoping by chance, that you may discover a change in the performance issue you have encountered: Possibly a laptop being plugged in, changes your situation?
Oh!
Memory Saver details:
How do I use the Energy Saver Feature?
To extend your device’s battery, Brave reduces its image capture rate and other background tasks.
When Energy Saver is ON, it works automatically whenever your device is unplugged, or when your battery is low. Energy Saver doesn’t turn on when your device is plugged in.
I am uncertain about, how Inactive Tabs are represented in the Brave Browser’s Task Manager. Also, you might display both that Task Manager window and the Windows OS Task Manager window, situated so that you can compare PID numbers.
That may help you to see which Tabs are using more energy.
Okay, so I can find out which tab is consuming how much memory just by hovering over it. The problem is that even after the Memory Saver is on and set to maximum, tabs that haven’t been open for a certain amount of time should be made inactive by Brave, but it’s not doing that.
You have many Tabs. My screenshot will show only 1 Tab - no space on my small laptop to show more.
I do not know details of the mechanism(s) by which Brave Browser decides which Tab(s) and when to deactivate. I imagine that Brave Browser makes a continuous assessment of the computer’s energy (availability) status + the computer user’s behavior + some probability estimate of that combination re “what, next?”
From what I have found online, memory and cache storage reservations pile up with the Tabs count. Maintenance of that, “costs.”
Study of the combined task management windows, and a user’s awareness of their computer’s operating temperatures and quality of performance … may convince/help the user to adjust the browser’s workload.
Updating, Friday, April 24, 2026
While using Brave Browser (MacOS), I took a screenshot of the Brave Browser Task Manager (top image) and Apple’s Activity Monitor (bottom image).
Notice the JavaScript Memory category in the Brave Browser Task Manager - the “… live” ← ie being kept alive.
According to Brave documentation, Memory Saver only works when the computer is running on battery power.
It’s still jumping to 100 tasks for me and at certain points it started making the browser flash blank and it got to a point where the tabs do not show memory saver and the brave search engine itself being slow and lagging. A couple times it gave me a 5000 error code before I got it off that.
These issues keep getting worse each update and not better and it’s enraging me. If my reply is unrelated, I did have a topic on the 100+ tasks performance but it locked after a month and they can’t be reopened which adds to my frustration.