Brave has been unusable since upgrade

[Qriist]

I’m having the exact same problem. Brave is completely useless right now. :-/

Recent updates have caused extremely high CPU usage

Description of the issue: I don’t tend to close my browser except when I’m rebooting the computer so the version I was previously using (with no issues) is at least a few weeks old. There was a queued update that I never got around to doing until today. The problems began when I installed the long-queued update. Opening the freshly updated browser caused my CPU usage to skyrocket and stay pegged close to 100%. Everything was very sluggish. Pages sometimes seemed to not respond at all. In the m…