Brave has become unusable! Extremely slow website loading for months

[pleasehelp]

Issue:
Brave has become horrendously slow at loading websites. I am a tech guy and have tried everything possible to fix this issue and cannot fix it. Anytime I go to a new website, it takes around 10 seconds or longer for the page to load. This happens on every website. And with Firefox it is instant. I’ve tried all different DNS settings, nothing helps. I always keep Brave up to date. My Macbook has 64GB Ram and is an M1 MAX it is very fast and not a memory issue. I have cleared cookies, DNS cache, disabled hardware acceleration, tried private windows, Brave rewards is turned off, Shields adblock filters have only the default checked and there are no extensions added. Nothing helps. I have used Brave for years and love it. But for the last 4 months it has taken a turn for the worst because of this issue. I was forced to switch to Firefox until this is patched. I am running the latest version of Mac OS Sequoia 15.3.2 and my internet speed is fast.

How can this issue be reproduced?

1. Open Brave.
2. Visit any website after typing it into the address bar
3. Hit enter

Expected result:

Extremely slow loading time of website.

The site will not be displayed while the spinning loading icon in the tab continues to spin and eventually it will load.

I just did a test again and it took 26 seconds to load. same test in Firefox and the site (duckduckgo) loaded instantly.

This is so frustrating!!

Brave Version:
Version 1.76.74 Chromium: 134.0.6998.89 (Official Build) (arm64)

Additional Information:

As of right now, I have over 6TB of space on my SSD and 49Gb of ram left. Brave is using 644mb of ram. Please help.

[289wk]

Versions of Brave Browser stable releases:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/CHANGELOG_DESKTOP.md

Scroll down to and click on:

BEFORE you run the installer, delete the following 3 items:

The BraveSofware folder at:

• /Users/username/Library/Caches/BraveSoftware/

The com.brave.Browser folder at:

• /Users/username/Library/Caches/com.brave.Browser/

The com.brave.Browser.savedState folder at:

• /Users/username/Library/Saved Application State/com.brave.Browser.savedState/

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Exit / Quit BB. And I would restart your Mac. Then try the installer.

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Where Brave Browser has usually been installed on the Mac:

/Applications/Brave Browser.app

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Brave Browser ... .plist

/Users/username/Library/BraveSoftware/

/Users/username/Library/Caches/BraveSoftware/

/Users/username/Library/Caches/com.brave.Browser/

/Users/username/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Brave Browser ... .crash

/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.brave.Browser.plist

/Users/username/Library/Saved Application State/com.brave.Browser.savedState/

And the “Brave Browser … .diag” reports within:

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/

You might not find:

/Users/username/Library/BraveSoftware

. . . do not worry about that.

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Anytime you want to start up and run Brave Browser (for MacOS) without burdens, use the following command in the MacOS Terminal.app window:

• open -a "Brave Browser.app" -n --args --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu --enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure 2> $HOME/Desktop/brave_console_out.txt

For that command string, the switches are intended to:

• Start up Brave Browser, showing a New Private Window [--incognito]
• Disable all experiments at brave://flags [--no-experiments]
• Disable extensions [--disable-extensions]
• Disable hardware (GPU) ie Graphic Acceleration [--disable-gpu]
• Enable leak detection and if that failure occurs, then crash the browser [--enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure are a combo]
• Produce error/log output to a file named ‘brave_console_out.txt’ on the MacOS Desktop

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You might monitor the Developer Tools window > Network tab, to see what might be hanging, looping, or stumped.

How to use Developer Tools:

• ‘https://www.lifewire.com/web-browser-developer-tools-3988965’
• ‘https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference/’
• ‘https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-guide-chromium/’

Developer Tools > Network:

You might check the “Disable cache” box.

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Monitor the MacOS Activity Monitor, and the Brave Browser Task Manager.

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