I'm running Brave, and just updated it. Not noticing any lag so far. New tabs (middle click) open instantly. It's taking over 2400 MB of RAM but I have over 30 tabs open (Don't Judge me~!)
I went back and checked after I got home from work, but I do not have hardware acceleration turned on. I disabled it when I was troubleshooting another issue.
I'm running both Pale Moon and Brave on multiple computers, having recently started moving away from Pale Moon as my primary browser.
No issues or lag observed yet, including when middle-clicking to open a new tab (zero delay opening the tab). This is on both Windows 10 and 11, with the same amount of RAM as you, but using mobile Ryzen chips. I haven't tested the latest release on my i9 desktop yet.
Have you tried running the same new tab tests using a clean profile?
The sudden loss of legacy extensions a few updates ago, combined with the recent dev and forum drama, was enough to make me doubt the future of Pale Moon. The number of incompatible websites has also grown significantly as of late, and even though that's mostly Google's fault, I can't avoid the need for a functional browser.
Thanks so much for making this thread. I've been so frustrated with the Brave browser. I noticed that with updates over the past 2 years, it drastically got worse.
Loading new tab is no longer instant. I think it's because they don't pre-load the assets for their new fancy page. If you keep a new tab open somewhere, this fixes the problem.
Opening incognito takes a few seconds. Probably similar source of issue.
Sometimes pages take a while to load. Dunno if it's because of the in-browser blocker messing with DNS or something.
Minor thing, but I noticed that the video player on Crunchy Roll has issue where the pause button will distort the video.
I'm thinking of moving to another browser, but dunno which one yet. I never cared about BAT, so it was aggravating that Brave is introducing slowdowns that I was trying to avoid in the first place.
At least it's still pretty good on Android. Hope it stays that way.
That's very strange. I could actually observe the browser getting slower as I used it more.
It's possible that it only affects certain users, and the problems persisted because they couldn't be easily reproduced.
I'd like to give up an update.
I did clear my browsing history, but that didn't really make the difference.
However, I noticed yesterday that the new tabs now load instantly. Perhaps an update fixed it. Not seeing slowness with opening websites anymore either.
The Crunchy Roll issue is still there though. Not a surprise, considering that problem manifested at a different point.
I've noticed incredible slowdowns lately in Brave (like 1-2 months I suppose), like reddit pages that I occasionally still visit redrawing a half dozen times. I'm on gigabit so it's not the internet, ssd, and my computer is decently fast.
The reddit excessive redraws was caused by noscript, which I found out because it just had a bad release that broke everything so I disabled it (redraws may be a conflict with Old Reddit or ublock). When enabled I see a flash of some icon that's the size of the entire window, so I think noscript may have replaced some tracking assets and screwed up the layout somehow like by leaving off the width/height so it resizes.
The history seems to grow forever and slows everything down, which is pointless since the URL bar won't complete any history after like a week or so (you have to manually open history and ctrl-f search for it). Clearing it occasionally seems to help a lot, cache seems to stay under control.
Honestly I hate Brave, but most of the problems I have with it I think are from Chromium so all the Cloniums are going to suck. Like dragging a link into a window opens a new tab instead of replacing the current tab. But what alternative is there. I like Firefox, but there's no way I'm going to support that censorious wokeness.
On the PC, I only use it for youtube and my channel. I am using the nightly version. But for android, I noticed how it became a massive memory hog. I had to reluctantly switch away to Kiwi. Which has a much smaller footprint.
There is a delay of 0.2-1 second, depending on whether it's a page on the same site I've visited already, but I never noticed so it must not be significant to me. I'm also getting the exact same delay on Chrome. So it may be something to do with recent changes in Chromium.
I'm running Brave, and just updated it. Not noticing any lag so far. New tabs (middle click) open instantly. It's taking over 2400 MB of RAM but I have over 30 tabs open (Don't Judge me~!)
Any extensions added?
Look at mister organized over here with so few tabs open.
I went back and checked after I got home from work, but I do not have hardware acceleration turned on. I disabled it when I was troubleshooting another issue.
havnt noticed but i only use brave for odysee
No real reason, just a 2nd browser tjat keeps a different set of tabs open than my main browser
I'm running both Pale Moon and Brave on multiple computers, having recently started moving away from Pale Moon as my primary browser.
No issues or lag observed yet, including when middle-clicking to open a new tab (zero delay opening the tab). This is on both Windows 10 and 11, with the same amount of RAM as you, but using mobile Ryzen chips. I haven't tested the latest release on my i9 desktop yet.
Have you tried running the same new tab tests using a clean profile?
Due to them changing to being basically another Firefox fork?
I used to use it and that’s the boat I’m in.
The sudden loss of legacy extensions a few updates ago, combined with the recent dev and forum drama, was enough to make me doubt the future of Pale Moon. The number of incompatible websites has also grown significantly as of late, and even though that's mostly Google's fault, I can't avoid the need for a functional browser.
Thanks so much for making this thread. I've been so frustrated with the Brave browser. I noticed that with updates over the past 2 years, it drastically got worse.
I'm thinking of moving to another browser, but dunno which one yet. I never cared about BAT, so it was aggravating that Brave is introducing slowdowns that I was trying to avoid in the first place. At least it's still pretty good on Android. Hope it stays that way.
Have never experienced this at all, and I've been using brave for a very long time now.
That's very strange. I could actually observe the browser getting slower as I used it more.
It's possible that it only affects certain users, and the problems persisted because they couldn't be easily reproduced.
Eh. So that means I can never scour for things I browsed in case I need to look back.
Well, that's only happened once, so I guess I'll do it.
I'd like to give up an update.
I did clear my browsing history, but that didn't really make the difference.
However, I noticed yesterday that the new tabs now load instantly. Perhaps an update fixed it. Not seeing slowness with opening websites anymore either.
The Crunchy Roll issue is still there though. Not a surprise, considering that problem manifested at a different point.
I've noticed incredible slowdowns lately in Brave (like 1-2 months I suppose), like reddit pages that I occasionally still visit redrawing a half dozen times. I'm on gigabit so it's not the internet, ssd, and my computer is decently fast.
The reddit excessive redraws was caused by noscript, which I found out because it just had a bad release that broke everything so I disabled it (redraws may be a conflict with Old Reddit or ublock). When enabled I see a flash of some icon that's the size of the entire window, so I think noscript may have replaced some tracking assets and screwed up the layout somehow like by leaving off the width/height so it resizes.
The history seems to grow forever and slows everything down, which is pointless since the URL bar won't complete any history after like a week or so (you have to manually open history and ctrl-f search for it). Clearing it occasionally seems to help a lot, cache seems to stay under control.
Honestly I hate Brave, but most of the problems I have with it I think are from Chromium so all the Cloniums are going to suck. Like dragging a link into a window opens a new tab instead of replacing the current tab. But what alternative is there. I like Firefox, but there's no way I'm going to support that censorious wokeness.
Nope, it's been fine.
Brave has ever been fine? I had to quit it, was even a worse memory hog than Chrome.
On the PC, I only use it for youtube and my channel. I am using the nightly version. But for android, I noticed how it became a massive memory hog. I had to reluctantly switch away to Kiwi. Which has a much smaller footprint.
Yep, that definitely could explain why it is a bit disappointing as of late!
I haven't really noticed. On 1.34.80. (probably not the most recent updates)
There is a delay of 0.2-1 second, depending on whether it's a page on the same site I've visited already, but I never noticed so it must not be significant to me. I'm also getting the exact same delay on Chrome. So it may be something to do with recent changes in Chromium.
Also tried with latest version 1.35.101.
I was having issues with it going “not responding” when trying to download, so I uninstalled it and went over to Opera.