Brave - High CPU usage since today

Since today, Brave is using a full CPU core constantly. My CPU fan keeps spinning my ears off and the system probably eats tons of electricity.

Also, Brave cannot be quit properly. The main process keeps spinning around the CPU and never closes. I have to kill it to close Brave. Next time I start it, I can restore the session.

I’ve closed all tabs now but the issues doesn’t go away. It’s really frustrating to use this browser now.

The internal task manager (Shift+Esc) doesn’t show anything I could use. The browser is around 100% and the entries from the second line on change permanently, with just a few % CPU usage. No single culprit to be found here. Must be the browser itself. A bad update?

I’ve got the latest update as well, but not seeing any issue with it.
Browser with 19 tabs (over 3 windows) still only registers at 0.3% CPU, 0.1% GPU usage (though with 1,000 Mb+ Memory in use)

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I’m pretty sure the problem was solved when Brave’s servers came back up :rofl:

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