I have a VERY bad computer. I’d like brave to be as lightweight as possible without making my fingerprint look unique or compromising my privacy and security. I even use a lightweight linux distro. How do I accomplish this?
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- No Brave Rewards
- No Brave BAT
- No Brave Wallet
- No Brave Premium accounts
- No Brave VPN
- No Brave Leo AI
- No extensions
- No Brave password management
- No dependence upon Tabs
- No dependence upon language translation
- No Brave Sync
- No more than 2 Brave user Profiles (limited to Profile folders: “Default” folder [stores data for user Profile 1], “Profile 1” folder [stores data for user Profile 2])
Brave Browser Clear Cache, Cookies [etc] Settings ← set On exit, to clear everything.
Use Private Windows, Private Browsing, for Internet.
In a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://version and scroll down to Profile Path. Write that path by hand, in your paper computer logbook where you keep notes.
Maintain a routine for backing up the “BraveSoftware” folder. Plus, a routine for backing up your bookmarks.
PS: No Google accounts. No Google Drive. No Microsoft One Drive. No dependence upon online drives, online sync’ing.
- What do you mean no dependence on tabs?
- I don’t use brave rewards, brave wallet, premium account, VPN, AI, extensions, brave’s own password manager or sync and I do clear everthing on exit.
- However, even if I don’t use those features and think I have them disabled, do they take up performance? I would like to disable them completely.
What I’m looking for are more obscure things like chrome flags or CSS or anything other than what people would usually tell you
I’ve also debloated the new tab page and I don’t use any Google accounts or things from big tech in general or any online synicng
Because a new process runs for each BB window and for each BB tab, I suggest that you monitor the Brave Browser Task Manager while testing BB windows and tabs.
Using a Mac, I match the Process ID (PID) numbers; the BB Task Manager gives details; the [Apple] Activity Monitor indicates “Brave Browser Helper”:
NOTE: The memory values for “Browser” and “GPU Process” are higher in the BB Task Manager window, relative to the Activity Monitor window (“Brave Browser” and “Brave Browser Helper (GPU”)) . . . because I have GPU / hardware Acceleration enabled.