I assume you have also observed the trend line of the CPU usage. Nonetheless, I recognize Apple’s successes and their merits since I have studied it and used their products extensively.Īgain, with that being said, it is highly bizarre that a web browser or any of its subroutines would result in 98% CPU utilization especially considering the structure of Unix operating systems such as OS X. I myself have used mostly computers I built myself recently which are not Mac based or utilize OS X. 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.

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.

Sudden quick cpu temp spikes