I’m running Brave on three different platforms and I haven’t experienced much of what you describe.
Have you got less than 4GB of RAM?
My “weak” laptop used to have 2GB; upgrading to 4GB was dramatically better.
I keep lots of tabs open (30+), and when I come back out of sleep mode on my Win7 laptop, there’s a lag as content on many of those tabs is refreshed, but I’ve burdened the application so it’s to be expected. If I mill around on my credit union website long enough that it logs me out, clicking the login button on that “You’ve been signed out” page frequently gets me a swirling circle, but it’s not the browser doing it, it’s the credit union website doing it.
It acts the same on my HP 8710w laptop running Ubuntu, and it acts the same on my Samsung S6, which is an Android unit.
Try this:
If a page balks, try it again “Shields down,” if it still balks, copy/paste the URL into a different browser, and see how it acts. Chrome would be most identical to Brave.
Do that a dozen times or more and gather some experiential data. Note whether it’s specific domains, pages you frequent... get some specifics. Maybe some common threads will emerge that give you more to go on.
How can I determine how much RAM my computer has?
Is this pertinent info included on the Manufacturer's Plate?
Regards,
I've found a few sites that simply won't load correctly under Brave but work fine with Chrome. I figure they probably made some backroom deal with Google...or the NSA.
I would think so! 4GB is about the minimum just for the OS and browsing. But RAM is expensive now. Maybe clone your OS to a SSD (128 GB for under $30) and boot from that, using your old drive for storage.