Brave runs very slowy/laggy

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Hi how are you? I’ve been using Brave for years. For some time now my PC has been slowing down. Although everything works, it works like an old PC, with a lot of lag when using Brave (I have an i7 11800h + 32gb ram).

I actually have a lot of tabs open, and a lot of bookmarks, but at the same time my PC’s resources, as I attached in the photo, are still very good, with a lot of free ram and cpu, so I don’t know if this should happen.

A while ago I formatted my PC thinking it could be that, I made the entire backup copying the USER DATA folder (12gb), but everything remained the same.

Ideas? Solutions? Thanks

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

Expected result:

Brave Version( check About Brave): Version 1.73.101 Chromium: 131.0.6778.139 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:

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Brave Browser (Windows OS) user’s toolbox - wherein you may find something that works:

“Browser Slow Typing Bogged Down - #3 by 289wk”

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Sorry, I don’t speak English and the translation is bad. Do you mean that I should do everything that the link you attached says?

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First step: Try to:

So that you are prepared for subsequent steps. Be sure to place your backups in a safe location - on an external USB drive, for example. You might also create a specific location on your Windows OS machine, for such backups . . . something like a folder:

C:\BraveBrwsrBkups

That directory (folder) is easy to create and to locate, and also out of the paths of Brave Browser installation parts/pieces.

After backing up such data, then consider:

Clearing cache, cookies, etc.

Sometimes, the following two steps, are sufficient to get Brave Browser running properly.

With BB not running, delete the ‘Caches’ folder, and delete the ‘Cookies’ file.

Caches (folder):

  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache\

Cookies (file):

  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cookies

Or, you could:

Clear cookies, cache, history, etc.

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

brave://settings/clearBrowserData

Select the Advanced tab

Set Time range to “All time”

ENABLE everything except:

  • Passwords and other sign-in data

(Myself, I would NOT make that exception)
(because I would have a backup prepared.)
(In other words, be prepared.)

Click on the “Clear data” button

Report back here, the status: Running same? Better? Worse?