Brave is painfully slow: macOS 15.0

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Brave takes a lot of time to load websites
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Install brave on latest macOS stable version
  2. try to load anything

Expected result:
The websites should load much faster
Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.70.117
Additional Information:
Everything worked perfectly fine but I reseted my computer. After install, I think I had no issues for maybe 2 days and now it began to be slow.
The only extension installed is Bitwarden. I touched very very few settings.
I have a VPN but it works well and fast for other apps and on Android and turning it off changes nothing.
I have Lockdown mode enabled but turning it off changes nothing
The very strange thing seems to be that Safari doesn’t work that fast either, as you can see in my screen recording of Mullvad Browser (works as expected) Safari and Brave and Activity Monitor : https://send.tresorit.com/a#PFFEx6hmIHDG0E-8HjUztw

I just created a new Brave Profile and it works perfectly ! What should I do ?

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Well I found the source of the issue.
Setting “Blocking trackers and advertising” to “Standard” immediately speeds up the browser af.
I suppose this is not normal and you should investigate this issue.

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Now I rebooted the computer and even with this setting set to “standard”, it’s as painfully slow as before. Even if I create brand new profiles

discuss.grapheneos.org loads instantly but not edition.cnn.com or discuss.privacyguides.net are slow. So there is something in those more complex websites that slows them

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Have MacOS 15 here, using a VPN may affect loading speeds. would test without it (or test with it enabled but on a closer destination country)

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Thanks but the same behavior happen without Windscribe VPN

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Needs more debuging tbh. Try clearing cookies/cache, test in private window mode. Nothing in the OS should be it any slower

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Hi.
Clearing cookies doesn’t help. How do I clear cache ?
Here you can see a page taking a lot of time to load. https://send.tresorit.com/a#-dKxQMEMCfRefIz7jO0HkA
Brave Search works instantly. I disconnected from the VPN before the screenshot. My wifi is very fast, I am at home.

And btw the same behavior happen if I try in a brand new profile

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can you test in Brave Beta?

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Just installed it. It works perfectly in Beta
What should I do then ?
I would really like to continue to use Brave Browser, if possible in stable version.
Since it already happend to me once and now again, I am sure it happend to other people too and there is something that needs to be fixed

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could be profile related? could try a reset, brave://settings/reset

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No sorry I rested settings and it is still slow, even without VPN
And I always try to modify as few as possible the settings of apps and os

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the same behavior began to happen with Brave Beta. Please help

Seems there is no support team at Brave ? Should I just switch to Safari to be able to browse the internet again ?

Damn
I even restted my whole mac to solve this problem.
Before reseting, my set up was 1 admin profile and two standard profiles and Lockdown mode. I reseted with the same setup. In the standard profile, it began to be really slow again so I resetted again without lockdown mode and only 2 admin profiles.
it worked really well in the first profile and then when I switched in the second profile, it began to mess up (really slow again).
I think it is related to my multi-profile set up

i reseted the computer and setup ONE admin profile and ONLY installed brave and it is a anormally slow again!

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@disposable1

Rings a bell (“Infinity” meaning: “takes forever”):

That is a long webpage where several Brave Community members reported their trouble about slow-loading.

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@disposable1

I do not use Tabs as substitutes for Bookmarks. Keep it lean.

Most often, I limit the number of open Brave Browser windows - keeping that number below 8.

I recommend NOT using Brave Browser as the default Internet browser, and NOT using more than 3 extensions.

I set Brave Browser to open to a blank page, so Brave Browser starts up, un-burdened.

The only time that Brave Browser has been s-l-o-w, is when there is some component updating in the background, or there is some kind of network issue (usually all the way back to some websites servers and that website’s authors).

Over the years, I have found Brave Browser to be a problem because:

  • Brave Software or Brave Support have created a new problem when fixing some other problem.
  • Having said that, Brave some times jumps on fixing the new problem . . . but other times, Brave is v-e-r-y s-l-o-w at responding to a problem.
  • Yet, most at Brave are devoted to trying to fix things "and not muck it up."

I favor the Brave Browser because of the security - and the Brave strategy to provide same. Brave Browser is “my default browser” BUT NOT SET TO being my computing devices’ default browser.

I have become accustomed to the troubles that Brave Shields pose - frustrating the appearance and performance of some websites . . . but I take that as part of the struggle to favor security over convenience.

And, where Brave Browser may not get the job done, then I fall back to Firefox (with 1 extension aka add-on aka plug-in): uBlock Origin.

If a person wants to protect their information and maintain a secure path, then a lot of study plus trial-and-error will be on that path.

Overall, I try to NOT beat up Brave Software . . . except a little on this one occasion. Because I want Brave Software to proceed toward “getting it right,” and I prefer that they not be too discouraged.

Over time, I learned how to set up Microsoft Edge to mimc Brave Browser. Yet, that is the same old story of study plus trial-and-error regarding every single setting.

Security requires such self-discipline, IMHO.

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@disposable1

PS. A lot of “it seems to be Brave Browser” troubles, are often times: a problem with the Chromium engine.

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This is not resolved and I am 100% sure this is related to OS profiles because I ended up using only 1 session on my mac and Brave worked flawlessly for since nearly a month.
I really like thw workflow 1 profile for work and 1 private so today I created a second macOS profile and Brave immediately began to be really, really, really slow on this new second profile.

Please devs do something !

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To be clear

MacOS users can have 1 or more user accounts on their Mac computer:

“https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-users-groups-settings-mtusr001/mac”

Brave Browser (“BB”) users can create more than one user Profile - per MacOS user account - for the Brave Browser installation (usually within the /Applications folder) on their Mac computer.

MacOS user accounts examples:

/Users/username1/

/Users/username2/

The initial Brave Browser User Profile after a fresh installation, is in the following “Default” folder:

/Users/username1/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/

The first additional Brave Browser User Profile would be in the “Profile 1” folder:

/Users/username1/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Profile 1/

The second additional Brave Browser User Profile would be in the “Profile 2” folder:

/Users/username1/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Profile 2/

and so on. Thus, repeating:

  • actual 1st BB User Profile is in “Default” folder
  • actual 2nd BB User Profile is in “Profile 1” folder
  • actual 3rd BB User Profile is in “Profile 2” folder.

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Become a master of all the settings at:

brave://settings/clearBrowserData
brave://settings/cookies
brave://settings/content

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“https://www.ccleaner.com/”

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