Brave response latency has just become tremendously egregious. It is NOT the fault of our internet provider speed. Our Spectrum Business service is SpeedTesting at significantly higher than the projected speed – in fact, about 2/3 higher. So it has to be Brave, which is the only browser we use, or have used since being an early adopter when Brave first started years ago and was actually FAST. Instead of constantly focusing on adding new bells and whistles (that few people are using), Brave needs to FIRST get back to the basics, significantly increase server capacity so as to get Brave back up to the speed and responsivity that SHOULD be Brave’s primary focus – before adding ANY new server-overloading features. The horrendously increased response latency makes doing business on Brave much harder and has forced us after all these years with Brave to begin to consider other better, faster, less encumbered options in the privacy browser community.
@pulleco Thanks for sharing your feedback. I see that you’ve posted this in the feedback category rather than asking for assistance, so I assume you’re not looking for troubleshooting help. However, if you are interested, more information about your setup—such as your operating system, Brave version, and any steps you’ve already taken—would be necessary to get a better idea of what might be causing the latency issues.
Regarding your comments about features affecting performance, most of the newer features in Brave are designed to operate without adding significant strain or impacting performance noticeably. Factors such as connection stability, network settings, or even extensions and security software can play a role in browser performance, so without more context, it’s hard to pinpoint the exact issue.
If you’re willing to provide more details, I’d be happy to try and assist further.
I have a reasonably fast desktop computer running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit with an abundance of memory resources. Always updated with the automatic Windows updates.
I am on a Charter Spectrum Business internet service projected at 300 Mbps, but which usually Speedtests at around 500 Mbps. (Just before writing this response, it tested at 513 Mbps.)
My Brave is set for auto-updates, so I assume it is getting all of the nightly updates. The version is currently showing as Version 1.71.121 Chromium: 130.0.6723.91 (Official Build) (64-bit).
Just as an example, I restarted Windows within the past hour to clear out and refresh the system, and let it sit while it was out running errands so it could run whatever scans Windows is going to run after restart.
Then when I double clicked the Brave icon to start the browser, I timed it – it took a full 5 minutes from the time I double clicked the icon until a blank browser window showed up on the screen. It took an additional 3 minutes for the Brave home page to populate. That is ridiculous response latency from Brave.
I do not have that kind of latency issue with other large programs that I regularly use that are also connected to their host out there – WordPerfect, Quicken, and Adobe Photoshop. Quicken and Photoshop are large and take 2-3 minutes to load to the screen – but never 8 minutes.
And while Brave works reasonably well maybe 2/3 of the time, the other 1/3 has become just egregious – Brave (Not responding) has just become a huge hindrance to productivity and just basic functionality at business critical times – when we rarely have any such hindering latency from any of the other large programs that we use.
And Brave did not use to be that way. And I’ve been with Brave since near the beginning, when it was fast and promoted as fast.
@pulleco hearing that anything at all is taking 2-3+ minutes to open does not sound good. Newer PC should open everything in a matter of seconds, not a minute or more. If things are taking as long as you’re mentioning then it sounds like you have some issues happening with your device. Whether it be bad registry entries, an issue with your processor, something eating at your memory, etc.
If you haven’t done so lately, I’d recommend you:
- Check for any updates to the drivers for your device.
- Try a Check Disk tool and all. If you aren’t familiar with Check Disk, you may want to look at https://www.howtogeek.com/1033/how-to-use-chkdsk-on-windows/ or can look it up in other places if you wish.
- Defragment your hard drive, especially if you’re on a HDD and not a SDD.
- Run a malware/antivirus scan.
I’ll also tag in @Mattches in case he has any additional suggestions for you.