Hot Take Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance

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We recently ran new benchmarks comparing Brave against the three most widely used desktop browsers: Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
We found that Brave for desktop is faster, uses less energy, consumes less CPU and memory, and transfers less data. Specifically, across all tested browsers Brave:
  • Uses on average 44% less CPU
  • Uses on average 10% less energy
  • Uses on average 28% less memory
  • Loads pages 20% faster
  • Transfers 26% less inbound data
  • Transfers 39% less outbound data
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Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance | Brave

New tests on macOS show Brave for desktop outperforms Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in page-load speed, CPU, memory, energy, and network use. This post includes the full methodology and results.
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Chatgpt had me do some dumps of both Brave and Firefox seccomp and apparmor rules that came with the apps and compared them. Brave wins. This is not a simple diff. Chatgpt understands what those rules are about. And chatgpt was using my strict threat model.
 
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Best for CPU and battery: Brave.
In independent laboratory tests, Brave consistently consumed the least energy of the processor, which translates into longer battery life. Compared to Chrome, it can reduce CPU load by up to 44%.

Fastest page loading: LibreWolf.
Although it starts slower, in interaction response rate tests (e.g. clicks, scrolling) LibreWolf achieved the highest scores – that means that the pages feel “more fluid” and display content faster.

The most private and economical in data: LibreWolf and Brave.
Both browsers block trackers and ads by default, which drastically reduces the amount of data transmitted (both incoming and outgoing).
LibreWolf goes a step further – it sends zero telemetry data to the manufacturer, while Chrome sends the most of it.

RAM consumption:
Here the situation is more complicated:

Firefox and LibreWolf (which is based on Firefox) often use less RAM with multiple open tabs.

However, LibreWolf has additional anti-tracking filters that can slightly increase memory consumption.

Chrome and Brave (Chromium-based) use a separate process for each card, which increases RAM consumption, but improves stability and security (the failure of one tab does not suspend the entire browser).
 
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It's not a surprising result, as all of it is mainly down to Brave's very good integrated adblocker.
Chrome and Edge with a good adblocker will show similar performance in most of the benchmarks shown here.
Though one thing that was very notable in the benchmark is that Firefox's CPU usage is much higher, which I have always noticed personally, and Edge was oddly slower on average than the others.
 
Sorrento said:
done by Brave themselves
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Sorrento said:
Not much info how it was done though, on Desktop, RAM, CPU, OS?
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Hot Take Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance ... on MacOS 🙃
This desktop testing was conducted on an Apple Mac Mini with an Apple M2 chip and 8 GB of unified memory, running macOS 26.5.1 (25F80).
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I lost my faith in Brave long time ago, once they stopped users from really disabling Brave Rewards.
They are also secretly working with Google and make fake, umm, I mean bold claims like this article.
 
SeriousHoax said:
It's not a surprising result, as all of it is mainly down to Brave's very good integrated adblocker.
Chrome and Edge with a good adblocker will show similar performance in most of the benchmarks shown here.
Though one thing that was very notable in the benchmark is that Firefox's CPU usage is much higher, which I have always noticed personally, and Edge was oddly slower on average than the others.
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Synthetic benchmarks show that you are most likely right its actually there below the performance of chrome and edge but close enough its in my opinion a better compromise for its native AdBlock but still brave used a bit of corporate like deception in these tests that you can see once you go to actual non AdBlock related tests the "Synthetic benchmarks"
 
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Sampei.Nihira said:
It seems to me that:

Brave Origin = Brave - these policies https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/360039248271-Group-Policy
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Yes, i think these are not present in origin, anyway for safety purpose :

"TorDisabled": 1,
"BraveRewardsDisabled": 1,
"BraveWalletDisabled": 1,
"BraveVPNDisabled": 1,
"BraveAIChatEnabled": 0,
"BraveNewsDisabled": 1,
"BraveSpeedreaderEnabled": 0,
"BraveWaybackMachineEnabled": 0,
"BraveStatsPingEnabled": false,
"BraveWebDiscoveryEnabled": 0,
"BravePlaylistEnabled": 0,
"BraveLocalAIEnabled": false,
"BraveP3AEnabled": false,
"BraveTalkDisabled": true,

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