Insane memory and energy consumption
Summary
A community forum thread where a macOS user reports high CPU and memory usage by the Brave browser, impacting battery life and preventing system sleep.
Key quotes
I like using Brave but the cpu/memory consumption is ruining my mac’s battery.
I just discovered that Brave actually prevents my Mac from going to sleep.
The discussion involves users troubleshooting Brave’s resource consumption on macOS, exploring Chromium’s memory management, and discussing internal debugging tools like brave://system and brave://tracing.