Brave Browser keeps lagging and crashing

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. i just browse the internet, or watch youtube videos. it doesn’t seem to be a site specific problem

Expected result:
the browser crashes constantly, the pages take forever to load and it lags extremely. The problem occurs several times a day, at unspecified times… Sometimes not for hours, sometimes 3 times in a row. #

Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.74.48

Additional Information:

  • Macbook Pro m2 Pro chip

  • never had the problem, has only been occurring for a few days now and is really really annoying…

Searching Brave Community, search criteria: brave lagging

https://community.brave.com/search?q=brave%20lagging%20order%3Alatest

Searching Brave Community, search criteria: brave laggy

https://community.brave.com/search?q=brave%20laggy%20order%3Alatest

I can confirm on my macbook air m1, performance is significantly worse on 1.74.48, especially noticeable when zooming in & out of pages with a double tap.

My speedometer 2.0 score (that I test with every new version of brave) dropped from 415 to 370. when I run it twice, it drops even more to 285!!

they have to figure this out

Hi there,
I also tested my perfomance with speedometer 2.0 and my results are also devastating… . My performance is at 275!
I also found out that Youtube is significantly more affected than other sites.
I really hope they fix this problem.
I love Brave and the features, but in this state it is not usable. .

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@Mattches could we please have this forwarded to the Brave team? MacOS performance has gone down significantly since the newest 1.74.48 update.

I have also posted about it here: