Excessive Memory Issues With Brave

Description of the issue:

I just looked at my Activity Monitor and it said that my Brave browsers were pushing 12-13 GB of my memory storage. It became buggy and slow and borderline unusable due to my total 16G of memory. I have 4-5 Windows open, but it still shouldn’t be using this much memory compared to chrome and safari windows.

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

Every time i open Brave.

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

Spin wheels and slow loading.

Expected result:

Reproduces how often:

Every time I access the browser. I’m not sure if this is also active on my phone, but it is very laggy there with the search bar, every single time i type to search.

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):

Mac OS, Apple M3 chip.

Version 1.73.101 Chromium: 131.0.6778.139 (Official Build) (arm64)

Additional Information:

I’ve tried to delete or deactivate all plugins but still the issue remains.

@Will5 the first thing I would do is update the browser to the latest build (1.74.50 at the time of writing this) and see if this helps at all. Once you’ve updated, if the issue persists, please try disabling Graphics Acceleration in the browser settings (Settings --> System --> Graphics acceleration[...]) and let me know if this makes any difference.

@Mattches Thanks for the tip.

I checked for an update, but there was none available for me. I did the graphics acceleration and it lessened it down to 12.6GB/16GB. Still way too high memory usage.

@Will5,
How many tabs do you have open in the browser? Are they particularly intensive tabs (like streaming, gaming, maps, etc)? Do you have any extensions installed in the browser at this time?