Hello all
I’m new in this community but I’m using Brave since very long time and very please with this software.
I would like to report here a performance problem I’m experiencing. I do not find same topic (may be I do not search enough), so apologize if this is a dup
Problem
Since couple of weeks I’m seeing lot of performance issues and slowness for accessing several websites and display their pages. As an example, sometime it is so slow to refresh that entering credentials to access an online account is not working and I have to restart couple of times before getting in. I’m writing this message and in another tab I’m trying to access X (formerly twitter) or amazon and pages are still not refreshed completely… same action with google chrome display the web pages instantly.
Because of comparison with Google I have discovered that the culprit is Brave shields, but shutting down shields is a major problem for privacy
Context
- MacOS Monterey 12.7.5
- Version 1.69.153 Chromium: 128.0.6613.85 (Official Build) (x86_64)
- language: French (but I’m not sure this relevant since I have switched to english and see same issue)
- network connection fiber line or iPhone hotspot
- Brave setting reset to factory
- extensions: acrobat, bitwarden, google application launcher
Troubleshooting actions and results
- clear all cache → no effect
- deinstall and reinstall Brave software to latest → no effect
- remove all extensions → no effect
- switch off Brave shields → display instantaneous
Note shield is configured with default (factory) settings.
Experiment
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https://x.com/BraveSupport developer tools performance analysis with Brave shields ON:
4 ms Loading
4506 ms Scripting
530 ms Rendering
200 ms Painting
3044 ms System
126799 ms Idle
135083 ms Total -
https://x.com/BraveSupport developer tools performance analysis with Brave shields OFF:
5 ms Loading
5012 ms Scripting
264 ms Rendering
113 ms Painting
1962 ms System
1201 ms Idle
8557 ms Total -
https://x.com/BraveSupport developer tools performance analysis with google chrome (latest):
72 ms Loading
6730 ms Scripting
487 ms Rendering
165 ms Painting
1639 ms System
7697 ms Idle
16790 ms Total
As you can see there is a problem with brave shields and it is impacted largely display and access to web sites
I hope you will have soon a solution to this problem because Brave shields are very important and one of the major feature of Brave
Thanks for any help you can provide