Description of the issue: preventing multiple appearances in Task Manager How can this issue be reproduced?
Expected result: there is no rhyme or reason to the number is instances
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Additional Information: # of instances varies … I can have 3 or 4 brave tabs open and generally there is 3 to 4 times the instances. Have twice seen as many 20+, with 5 tabs opened which runs my pc out of memory. I understand the reason behind multiple instances, but 5 to 6 times the instances is too much. How do I control this?
You need to use the Chromium/Brave Task Manager to see what they actually are. They are your extensions, your tabs, each component running, and all Chromium based browsers can show this to you.
Right-click on your title bar and go to Task Manager:
The only one that won’t show up in Brave’s own task manager is the main process itself that spawned the browser. This is normal, and it’s always under 1MB in size and sits there doing nothing once the browser is actually open.
I virtually have task manager running all the time …
Unfortunately I only have 8 meg of ram and can get to 90% quickly …
Also I have no extensions, so that’s not the problem …
How do I get Task Manager - Brave? As shown in your screen print above
Right now this very second I have two tabs open and Task Manager shows 11 instances of Brave … this cannot be normal … and surely is manageable!
Multiple processes is entirely normal for multi-threading.
Again I demonstrated visually for you in the previous post how to get to the task manager to get a break down.
Also, I’m entirely sure you have more than 8 megs of RAM, it ain’t 1994, I’m guessing 8GB, but unfortunately in 2026, that’s not a lot based on web standards demands. 16GB is the minimum these days. Even without extensions, the more tabs you have open, the more RAM it’ll consume. You can use the memory saving settings in Brave at brave://settings/system, but please understand it can only do so much. The more advanced web standards get, the more resources consume. I hate it too as much as anyone.
But, the instructions in the previous post to do, detail how to get to the browsers own Task Manager that you need to use to see what each process is. Windows cannot tell you this, it can only do that for its own processes, but not for anything else.
