Why is brave so much bloated and slow compared to other chromium browser?

[Adrian_02]

Hey Yoshi1,

I remember seeing this post, so I decided to look for it. I’d recommend having a look at this thread, and I believe it might answer your question:

Why does Brave use more RAM than Chrome?

I’ve been told Brave is a great browser (besides for privacy reasons) because it uses less memory than the hog that is Chrome. However, after testing with the exact same tabs and extensions, hardware acceleration & rewards turned off and even private windows, Brave is consistently using more RAM than Chrome. Even in the task manager, just the base browser uses 270MB (I’m sure some of it is shields but that’s over double of Chrome). Why? Is it only the mobile version that uses less RAM overall b…