

Cant say if that is unusual, may have been like that before. If I close that down, Im getting a constant background CPU on active protection.

Even after that is done and nothing is going on, its sitting above 10 cpu. This thing, thanks to the new update, is an absolute memory hog.Ī couple years ago, I would've recommended the Brave browser to anyone however, it doesn't look like I can say that any longer. This is after the normal startup usage where its checking the various backup statuses.
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Pairing it with CCleaner also helped, which I also recommend you use.Īlso their recent update (March 1 or 2, 2021) has completely caused the browser to stop working entirely. bat file) numerous times before, just to properly kill the process. I've had to use the "taskkill /f /im brave.exe" DOS command (in a. The Brave Task Manager shows it’s the process labeled Browser that’s doing it. Apparently The Brave Browser is 3 times faster than Chrome.
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Because of this I was easily able to install all of the extensions making it feel just like Google Chrome. The browser windows all continue working normally, but the main Brave process starts consuming 134 CPU, the Mac starts running hot, and the battery starts draining quickly. The Brave Browser The Brave Browser was slightly easier to setup because it seems to use the same Google Chrome web store that the Google Chrome web browser uses.

Occasionally, for some reason or another, the browser causes memory leaks and eats up a ton of CPU, for no reason. After some period of time using Brave, it seems like one of the threads of the main Brave process starts to spin and chew up CPU. Will there be a fix This issue not not appear when using Firefox or Safari. However, unfortunately, I have to retract that opinion. I know this has been mentioned a bunch and I have done all the fixes but am still getting very high CPU usage and temps rising with just one tap open and browsing. When I started using Brave for the first time, I thought it was a really good Chromium-based web browser, that does everything Chrome can do, but without all that Google spyware, plus ad blocking built in.
