I’m having the exact same problem. Every time I open a tab it takes about 5-10 secs for it to load. That’s ridiculous. I’ll switch back over to Firefox before I sit waiting for a tab to open. Just started today. This is with everything on the dashboard turned OFF. I just noticed this Binance. Is that the cause? And if so, why is it still lagging with it turned off? Is it still loading but just not showing it? This goes against everything I thought Brave was about.
Same exact problem, ever since that binance window showed up it’s been like this, takes a good 6 seconds for the browser to become responsive after opening a new blank tab. However when opening a new tab through a link no lag happens.
I was surprised that I am not the only one expriencing the same issue…
Open a new tab and loose your control on the browser for at least 15 seconds and every and each time…
A very big disappoinment on me…
Is there any one for a solution on the Brave side.?
I found a solution to this issue.
Rather than a solution, it is turn around but does the job and opens a new tab without any wait situation.
SHIFT-CONTROL_T “reopens the closed tab” without any hesitation, as the same menu item on the left button of mouse. “new tab” and Ctrl_T is a problem maker. Don’t ever use it until BRAVER bodies resolve it.
Having the same problem. Pretty sure it’s related to bookmarks. I’ve completely reset Brave and created two profiles, one with my bookmarks imported and one without. No extensions or other modifications.
The one with the bookmarks quickly started showing this problem again while the one without the bookmarks imported continued to function no problem, snappy and responsive no matter how many tabs I have open. And this is while having browser windows open for both profiles simultaneously even.
The browser window for the profile with the imported bookmarks locks up all of Brave when opening new tabs or windows. The profile without my bookmarks imported doesn’t.
Clearly this appears to be related to changes that went into the new build containing the new Bitcoin widget that everyone just got, but I suspect not it’s directly related to the widget itself.
Happening for me too - Version 1.8.86 Chromium: 81.0.4044.129 (Official Build) (64-bit) - macOS 10.15.4
Only happened after the last update. Hangs for 7-8 seconds every time I open a new tab. Made no changes to bookmarks or anything like that. Everything has been great up till now - have been using for a month or 2. If this carries on I will be going back to Firefox!
Adding the option to simply revert back to the previous update / version until the next update comes out would be a very welcome, and seemingly low effort fix for not only this, but similar problems in the future.
Try this:
Go to Settings > Additional Settings > Reset Settings > “Restore settings to their original defaults”
On previous 1.7.98, doing this solved the freezing issue that some users had back then.
Not sure if this will work, but it doesn’t hurt to try.
NOTE:
AFAIK “Reset Settings” is safe and will only clear your settings, cookies, & site data. Your bookmarks, history, and extension settings won’t be cleared or changed (not sure about saved password though). But make backup of your BAT just to be safe. Also backup your entire profile folder. On windows, it’s on %localappdata%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data
what they where using before was working fine and not causing any problems for me. The switch to this one and broke something causing the issue whenever you open a new tab.