Brave Browser Helper running 99% CPU

[jron]

Out of the blue a few weeks ago, I noticed my Macbook Pro (2019) 13in, 16gb ram was running extremely loud. I only had about 12 tabs open and eventually saw in Activity Monitor that Brave Browser Helper was taking up 99.5% CPU.

I’ve tried:

• Disabling hardware accelerator
• Updating Brave to 1.2.43
• Multiple restarts
• Resetting SMC
• Force quitting Brave Browser helper (just persists)
• Restarting Brave Browser (multiple times)
• Running only 1 tab of different websites (always running 99% CPU)

All to no avail.

I ended up switching back to Chrome, which is a bummer because I was enjoying Brave.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[steeven]

Hi @jron - thanks a bunch for reporting. What OS are you running? Had you installed any new extensions around the time that you noticed the change in CPU usage?

Thanks in advance!

[jron]

Hi @steeven,

I’m running macOS Catalina 10.15.2 .

The only extension I can think of would have been OneTab, but I have removed almost all extensions and the problem still persists.

[jesusmartinoza]

I’m having the same issue and I had to stop using Brave for now. A tried deleting every extension and Brave Rewards but the problem still persists.

My specs are:

Model Name:	MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:	MacBookPro12,1
Processor Name:	Intel Core i5
Processor Speed:	2.7 GHz
Number of Processors:	1
Total Number of Cores:	2
L2 Cache (per Core):	256 KB
L3 Cache:	3 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology:	Enabled
Memory:	8 GB
Boot ROM Version:	186.0.0.0.0
SMC Version (system):	2.28f7

[jesusmartinoza]

I found the issue.

Bat Ledger Service takes a looooot of CPU usage