Brave, hitting over 50% cpu usage

[Mattches]

@OurFreeSociety (and anyone else following this thread),
There is a similar thread on RAM usage here:

RAM Usage is Off the Charts, Why?

I’m finding that Brave is chewing up 15 to 20 GBs of RAM, and that’s without anything streaming. And the biggest culprits are: GPU Process at 5.6 GBs & 42% CPU Browser at GBs @ 22% CPU So that means the browser alone & the GPU process are eating nearly 8GBs of RAM, without any pages open using video or anything much. Why is this so very, very high? By the way, I do have Hardware Acceleration turned off, as well. Is 8 Gigs supposed to be the base level of Brave? I thought Brave is supposed t…

Note that I’ve provided some initial steps/information for users to take when diagnosing issues like this:

RAM Usage is Off the Charts, Why?

For anyone seeing this much active memory being used in Brave, please share the following: Close and quit any/all Brave applications entirely Open one new Brave Window, with only one tab open to the new tab page. Nothing else. Not your opening tabs, not Youtube or some site where you normally see high memory spikes – open one window, one tab, to the new tab page. Nothing else. Open the Brave task manager, then open your system task manager (or Activity Monitor for macOS users). Ensure that Br…

RAM Usage is Off the Charts, Why?

Thank you to those of you who provided the requested information I asked for. The reason I asked for it is to see if Brave at baseline – that is, by itself without any other major factors playing into it. So far, at baseline, it seems like everyone’s browser is just fine. The three most common reasons for memory drain tend to be Hardware Acceleration often causes spikes in cpu/memory usage – please try disabling HWA in the browser and see if this helps improve performance ( Settings --> Addit…