Browser using a lot of resources (desktop)

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Hey guys,

I am using Brave Browser on a Lenovo running Windows 10. The browser seems to be running excruciatingly slow at times. I tried to go to my Gmail, it was taking forever to load so I opened up Task Manager and this is what I saw with a single browser window with one single tab open.

This seems like an outrageous number of processes for a browser, am I missing something?

Thanks in advance

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Yes, you are. Chromium based browsers like Brave, Edge, Chrome, etc all run a different process for various parts of the browser. Every tab, extension, and whatever else will be its own process. This helps run efficiently but also prevents your entire browser from crashing if any of those individual things have an issue.

It’s the same philosophy for why you hear about computers with “multi-core processors” and all.

But don’t just take my word for it, check out links like below:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-process-architecture/

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And this likely is a different issue. With any problem, there are often different layers of troubleshooting and consideration. For example:

  • Does the issue only happen on one sites or others?

  • How often does the issue occur and do you notice if anything in particular is done directly before or after?

  • Are there any specific settings, such as enabling or disabling Shields, that seems to make things work better or worse?

  • Do you see any improvements in a private/incognito window?

  • If you create a second browser profile, does it work better?

  • Does the same issue happen in other web browsers, such as Chrome?

Obviously the list can go on. Unfortunately our devices have a lot of moving parts these days and many of the things we have either on the device or even within each app/program/browser have a variety of toggles or features that can cause problems. And sometimes it’s issues with the websites or some server between your device and the website that’s experiencing issues.

Hearing you speak of things going slow tells me it could be your internet, firewall, antivirus, some extension installed, Shields, GPU, processor, cookies, VPN, or any other random number of things.

What you have shown from your task manager makes it seem like it wouldn’t be an issue with your RAM or processing overall. But as stated, there’s too many little details to have to test and consider.

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Gotcha, I will have to start trying different variables. Thank you for the very detailed reply.

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