

Macs, in general, tend to be highly efficient in resource utilization globally within the entire structure of the computer. That being said, I have programmed and built computers. I am not an expert on computer technology, and I am not a programmer. I also believe that your problem is not only caused by the browser. I believe your problem is not obvious at all. Again though, this only started happening yesterday and Brave never had an issue with this many closed tabs before.

I do have around two dozen tabs in the browser, however, they’re all closed with the Marvellous Suspender add-on. My Task Manager says that it’s Utility: Bat Ads Service that’s primarily using most of my CPU within the browser. When my computer begins to heat up and I check my Activity Monitor, it says “Brave Browser Helper” is what’s using up all the CPU. But the moment I do anything on a webpage, suddenly the CPU usage shoots up to around 98%. It primarily seems to happen when I load a new page on any website, where if I leave a page without doing anything, it seems to come down to normal levels. I tried turning off hardware acceleration, but it didn’t help.
#Brave browser for mac cpu usage vs. chrome install#
I didn’t install any new add-ons or do anything specific that I can think of to cause this. All of a sudden yesterday, Brave started using large amounts of CPU, causing my computer to heat up, with no reason I can think of that for why it’s happening.
