Brave using more than 100% CPU when I watch live streaming videos

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I see that Brave spends more than 100% CPU when I watch live streaming videos, it raises CPU temp to 70-80° Celcius, even when I’m using Zoom it can go to more than 80° C, pushing me to restart Zoom. Are there any tips so Brave won’t use great CPU resources?

Info, I’m using:
Brave Version 1.46.153 Chromium: 108.0.5359.128 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OS: Linux Mint 21.0
Proc: i5 -4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz
RAM: 16 GB
Graphic card: Radeon R7 240/340
Linux command I use to monitor CPU usage: top

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More than 100%? Do you have an hyper quantic machine? :smiley:

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I don’t know what hyper quantic machine is, but I just found out that it’s a quirk behavior from ‘top’, it displays percentage for whole CPUs, so if you have 4CPUs, if it displays 120% it could be 120/4 = 30%.

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Whenever I try to watch…

  • live streams of tennis matches on YouTube
  • use WatchParty with a friend
  • T2 (on Amazon, Plex, etc.)
  • live stream of the Netflix Slam
  • watch PlutoTv on desktop browser

I see the Brave CPU jump into the high 30s. When it gets even higher, the image can lag and the fan turns on which is annoying, distracting, & loud.

  1. I don’t use extensions. They only cause more problems in the long run.
  2. Shields are always enabled.
  3. Graphics Acceleration, Memory Saver, & Energy Saver are always enabled.
  4. I’ve seen conflicting advice: turn off hardware acceleration. No, turn on Hardware acceleration. So, I disregard & just keep whatever was there.

How do we fix this given the plethora of now closed threads on this subject dating back to 2020?