So, whatever about Brave Browser is a cause … meanwhile, keeping the Mac cooler (using Macs Fan Control), will help to reduce the Mac’s response → its attempts to reduce performance and thereby cool things down.
I used to work at Apple, the fans running only mean the CPU is getting warm which I see in your screenshot (and nothing is actually past tjmax), which isn’t a fault. Apple programs the fans to kick on rather “late” so the computer is quiet most of the time. This is normal for a Mac. It’s a Steve Jobs era decision that’s remained, run the CPU close to max temp, and then logarithmically ramp up the fan, NOT linear.
It just means Brave is either wasting CPU cycles making a space heater, or something is using those resources. I do not know why this person keeps insisting on the oddest of troubleshooting methods, but you do NOT need to be checking your temps. lol My goodness.
Activity Monitor however (if it’s still called that, I left Apple around Mavericks), would help, or better yet, the browsers own Task Manager, as THAT can name what each process is doing (whereas the OS itself doesn’t know).
I don’t know the Mac version of Brave, but if @Mattches can mention how that’s reached (on the PC we right-click the tab bar and we have a popup menu for the browsers Task Manager, but I assume the Mac version doesn’t have a tab bar that can be right-clicked, and instead is a menu bar item). Using that will help pinpoint which process in Brave is the one stealing CPU resources.
Each process is actually named, and what it does, and it’ll outline not only how much RAM that process is using, but how much of the CPU it is as well.
You have taken “a step toward saving your Mac computer from excess heat.” While you test.
My mid-2020 MacBook Pro (Intel i5 MacBookPro16,2) (MacOS 14.8.5 Sonoma) Brave Browser stable release v1.89.132.
Screenshots show both fans are running, and temperature ranges are within range of what may be called “crusing speed” - for both conditions of Brave Browser not running vs. Brave Browser running:
Top image is Brave Browser Task Manager. Bottom image is Apple Activity Monitor. You can compare (match) PID numbers. I have only 1 Brave Browser Private Window open to this Brave Community, plus the 1 Brave Browser Task Manager window.
Hello, thank you for your reply, and thanks for explaining about the fans; it’s better to explain things than to force people to use software without giving any explanation
I do not know why this person keeps insisting on the oddest of troubleshooting methods, but you do NOT need to be checking your temps. lol My goodness.
we’re in complete agreement
Right-clicking on the taskbar works on Macs too
Here’s my Brave task manager.
I don’t have many tabs open because I’ve stopped using Brave since it’s so slow. It’s only been open for about five minutes and it’s already slowing down!
Based on Brave’s own Task Manager, I’m a little stumped. In this shot, Brave appears to only be consuming about 2.3% total across multiple threads, of your CPU.
So I wonder if something else is causing things to go slow (and use more CPU resources in a way Brave can’t quite display, but is generated heat). By chance, you haven’t turned off Graphics Acceleration in settings, have you?
I see the GPU process isn’t actually using much memory, and this is making me wonder if it’s in software mode.
While this is the Windows build, memory footprints should be close, not so far apart. As you see on mine here, I’m using around 3x the amount of RAM for the GPU process, for caching of graphics for GPU acceleration. Usually when this process uses little RAM, it’s more because it’s in software mode. (Not always, but might be.)
You’ll likely see stuff different to me, but you should a few things in green. If nothing is green, then it might be the GPU process using the CPU to do all graphical lifting (without using its GPU core).
