I find myself waiting far too long far too often for UI control to return while Brave and/or Windows is off in the weeds doing god-knows-what. I watch the Brave Task Manager and the Windows Task Manager, looking for CPU-hog pages to kill.
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the refresh rate on the tasks monitor is too fast to conveniently ‘catch’ a process to kill on the first pass, making you wait with cursor over a line where the process was on a previous update. Cut the refresh rate and reduce the performance backlog. How about letting users pick the refresh rate?
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I’d like to have more information about the active tasks. Maybe an extension is slowing performance to a crawl? If I knew which extension was causing the resource waits, I could experiment with disabling it. “Dedicated Worker” is way too generic - give me the name of the extension or subsystem, so I can communicate effectively about it. “Extensions: Brave”, “Renderer”, and “Subframe: URL” are not helpful, especially when the task manager update resorts everything a half-second later.
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In general, I do NOT want windows that are not at the top of the UI stack using ANY CPU. Once painted, put that tab/window into energy conservation mode.
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With Brave updates coming out FREQUENTLY, ALL of the windows/tabs have to reload at every update, thereby making moot my considerable efforts to kill greedy tasks/tabs.
----- situational data points…
a) My usual hardware/OS:
Windows-11 on a 64-bit, 16-thread Intel Core i9-9980HK CPU @ 2.40GHz with 128GB RAM
b) I don’t know how many tabs I have ‘saved’ for subsequent review, but the scroll button in the Task Manager is about 22% of the length of the task list (if that helps).