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Description of the issue: Freezing and super slow when trying to navigate any pages How can this issue be reproduced? Yes on Amazon, X, HomeDepot
Open any website
Try to click on a link, or next page
Expected result: I go to click on something and the page moves and I end up clicking on something else. I try to go to the next page and it clicks on an item. I try to like something in X and it freezes for a few seconds. Has been happening for about two weeks now.
Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.78.97
Additional Information: I have tested on Edge and it does not do this. My net is good with no packet loss when doing a ping test. Also download is at 2067 and upload at 1990
Can you please try opening a guest profile window (Menu --> More tools --> Guest profile), closing your original profile window, and try browsing in the guest profile and tell me if you see the same behavior?
@TDiehl this points to the issue being associated with your main profile. I would recommend disabling any extensions you have installed, then testing to see if one of them was causing the issue.
So the next step would either be uninstalling the extensions entirely to test and see if simply having them installed was causing the issue.
If you don’t want to do that (or if you do and it doesn’t help) then the next step I’d recommend after that would be clearing out your browsing data (Settings --> History --> Delete browsing data). I would start by deleting Cached images and files and Cookies and Site data and test again and see if this makes any difference.
Yeah I have done the history, cookies and cashe. I hate doing that because it always wants me to “verify” the new machine, but I will give this a try. I uninstalled what I had so far it is not freezing so thank you so much! You are awesome
I ran into this as well. Deleting history worked (I had to delete both Cached images and files and Cookies and Site data), but this was very inconvenient. Is this a bug being tracked? It seems like having a large history shouldn’t render the browser completely unusable.
Mine was not the history at all but an extension. Even though I only have one Brave no longer likes it. I can turn it on and off, but have to mostly keep it off to work. Weird that it was perfect before the update and now I cannot have extensions.
After a few days the extreme slowness is back. I had purged my entire browser history, but apparently this is not a real fix. I have no extensions installed at all.
This is still happening for me, and by now I’m pretty sure it’s not about the profile:
This time I exited Brave, completely nuked my ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/ dir, and started Brave again creating a new profile. Zero extensions installed. Within a few hours I had the same issue again, with just a few tabs open.
When the extreme lag happens, my CPU usage is below 5%, my RAM use is well below 50%, and no other application is having any issue rendering. The problem is also intermittent, a few minutes of extreme sluggishness followed by normal operation.
Version: 1.79.119 Chromium: 137.0.7151.68 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Running on Fedora Linux 42, KDE Plasma Desktop Edition
I tried opening a guest profile, then closing my original profile. However, the web pages still drag/lag. Also, I do not have any extensions installed.
Mine was extensions. Brave does not like any of them. If I need an extension for something, I have to turn it on, use it, and then turn it off again. Not sure what happened. I only have two, but both of them cause Brave to run like I am having internet issues.
I wouldn’t say it’s like having internet issues since the issue is completely local (at least for me). For example:
Try to scroll down/up on a fully rendered web page (even static html page), it takes 3-5 full seconds with nothing happening, then it jumps the entire distance you scrolled at once. Same with keyboard arrow up/down.
Typing into a form, no letters appear for several seconds, then Brave catches up and all past keystrokes appear at once.
Open a new tab, again nothing happens for several seconds until it appears.
Hover over a link on an already fully rendered web page, and the target url does not appear in the bottom for several seconds. It should be instant.