Performance issues on mac

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Hey, I am pretty new to macOS but have used brave for years now is honestly my favo browser but recently i got my first mac from work and i have had some performence issues with it i have the 2022 mac air m2 i installed brave from safari and now my brave is just lagging so hard all the time if i want to open a new tab sometimes it takes up to 20 seconds and that is pretty anoying, and if i go to safari everything is really smooth (but i hate ads and trackers so ly brave) Anyone here now how to help?
Mac os version- sequoia version 15.3.1
brave version- 1.75.178
Even after typing this i tried opening a new windows to see the brave version and it took me about 30 seconds just to open it - this is a brand new mac

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Hey,
I am just a big dumb dumb. when i installed brave I did not move it to aplications this is why it was so bad and all of the apps i installed where gone when i restarted my laptop… i feel so stupid haha im an system engineer btw :sob:

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Go to brave://settings/clearBrowserData Advanced tab

Time range: All time

ENABLE:

  • Browsing history
  • Download hsitory
  • Cookies and other site data
  • Cached images and files

And Clear data

Exit / Quit BB. Start BB.

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

  • brave://settings/system

Memory Saver ← toggle that

TEST: Disable Graphics Acceleration

TEST: Toggle (Enable / Disable) Graphics Acceleration

TEST: Disable all extensions that you have added

TEST: Extensions - test individually, no combinations

Where Brave Browser has usually been installed on the Mac:

/Applications/Brave Browser.app

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/

/Users/username/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Brave Browser ... .plist

/Users/username/Library/BraveSoftware/

/Users/username/Library/Caches/BraveSoftware/

/Users/username/Library/Caches/com.brave.Browser/

/Users/username/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Brave Browser ... .crash

/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.brave.Browser.plist

/Users/username/Library/Saved Application State/com.brave.Browser.savedState/

And the “Brave Browser … .diag” reports within:

/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/

You might not find:

/Users/username/Library/BraveSoftware

. . . do not worry about that.

Please make a routine of backing up your data. On the Mac, I back up the BraveSoftware folder, in a (.zip) compressed form, giving each backup a chronological name. Examples:

  • 20250220_BrvSftwrFldrBkup.zip
  • 20250221_BrvSftwrFldrBkup.zip
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hey thanks but i already figured it out