High Memory Usage by Youtube Tab(5GB) crashing everything

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Description of the issue:
Watching youtube livestream or video’s leads to beyond abnormal memory usage CONSTANTLY. I have graphics acceleration off and tried new profiles. The adblock just keeps ticking up to a ridiculous amount of trackers being blocked. Happens every time with varying degree’s of stress (ranges from 1.4gb PER TAB, to upwards to 5 GIGABYTES.)

Window’s 10 op system &
v 1.70.126 Brave

If I sound pissed I’m sorry but i’m utilizing your browser to keep up to date with a SINGLE LIVESTREAM (Ryan Hall, Y’all) to keep up to date and stay informed since I’m in a danger zone for the milton hurricane. This is ridiculous, I see numerous other support tickets talking about this with NO RESULTS.
ThisIsNotNormal!

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Latest Brave Browser (desktop) version:

Has that made a difference?

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I’ve had the same issue for months. I assumed it was just an issue with Youtube. The latest version of Brave desktop still consistently has enormous memory utilization on Youtube tabs for me.

It has grown up to about 5GB and seems to remain stable until I run out of Windows’ page space, at which point anything open may crash. A hard refresh will drop the usage down to about 450MB, but this only lasts for a few minutes before it grows back over 1GB.

braveVersion
braveVersion689×217 10.6 KB

youtubeMemorySink
youtubeMemorySink241×123 3.5 KB

youtubeConsole
youtubeConsole900×968 93.7 KB

Interestingly, opening the Inspect Console currently causes that tab, and only that tab, to lose network connectivity. This may warrant a new post. I repeated the bug with YouTube, and the Brave and DuckDuckGo search engines. Closing the console restores functionality. This persists through reboots.

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November 5, 2024 Tuesday

Levers0098,

Clear browsing data on your Windows OS PC

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

brave://settings/clearBrowserData

Select the Advanced tab

Set Time range to “All time”

ENABLE everything except:

  • Passwords and other sign-in data

(Myself, I would NOT make that exception)
(because I would have a backup prepared.)
(In other words, be prepared.)

Click on the “Clear data” button

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

`brave://net-internals/#dns

Click on Clear host cache

Next, same window, select “Sockets” on the left.

Click Close idle sockets

Click Flush socket pools

Quit everything and Restart your Windows OS PC

Flush the Windows OS DNS cache:

Open a Command prompt, then run it as an administrator:

  • Right click CMD
  • Click Run as administrator

Type or paste each command below

  • ipconfig /release
  • ipconfig /flushdns
  • ipconfig /renew
  • netsh int ip reset
  • netsh winsock reset

Then Restart your Windows OS computer.

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

  • brave://settings/cookies

Scroll down that settings page, to Sites that can always use cookies

Click the Add button

Enter [*.]google.com as the site . . . but do not Enable the following:

  • Current Private session only
  • Including third-party cookies on this site

Click the Add button

Repeat those steps for:

  • [*.]firebaseapp.com
  • [*.]googleapis.com
  • [*.]googleusercontent.com
  • [*.]gstatic.com
  • [*.]youtube.com

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Next, go to:

  • brave://settings/content/javascript

Scroll down that javascript settings page to Allowed to use javascript

Click the Add button

Enter [*.]google.com as the site . . . but do not Enable the following:

  • Current Private session only

Click the Add button

Repeat those steps for:

  • [*.]firebaseapp.com
  • [*.]googleapis.com
  • [*.]googleusercontent.com
  • [*.]gstatic.com
  • [*.]youtube.com

PS.

Some times, a script on a computer, leaks, and that can run up the bill. The script may be part of the Internet browser, and/or, the script may have been downloaded from the website’s server(s).

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