Brave Browser slow on start up

[greenguy]

Hi,

This is my first post here.

I am running Mint 18.2 Sonya and the newest Brave Browser (Version 4.13.0-45-generic).
The problem is Brave takes 50 seconds to start up the first time. If I close it and start again it takes 11 seconds.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks

[greenguy]

Is anyone using the Brave Browser?

Does anyone else have a slow startup time with it?

How would I go about looking into why this is happening?

Thanks in Advance.

[greenguy]

Let me start again.

Hello.

Does anyone use the Brave Browser?

[Hoser Rob]

I don't use it but you can't always count on your questions being answered in a timely fashion or at all on volunteer based forums like this. Have you tried searching "site:forums.linuxmint.com Brave Browser" (the built in forum search here stinks) or just "linux ubuntu Brave Browser"? I use Ubuntu rather than Mint in search prefixes usually because Mint's Ubuntu based and Ubuntu has a much, much bigger user base. But if you do that use Ubuntu answers for the release your Mint is based on.

You should always give out more system info too, copy/paste this to the terminal and copy/paste the text output here ...

inxi -Fxz

... and where did you get Brave from?

[trytip]

yes, that's how it works. chrome is the same way opening the first time of the day.

[timapple]

How did you install? If you used the snap, I know there is a bit of a delay.

The whole thing is an electron app which isn't very resource friendly itself.
When I get home from work, I will load it and see if I get same results.

[greenguy]

Thank you for the replies. I apologize for my impatience.

I did search for the problem and came up with many references to Brave being slow but no solutions. I thought I would ask if anyone else had this problem and if they had a solution.

I installed Brave by adding the repository as instructed here:

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop ... Install.md

Here is the output from inxi


System: Kernel: 4.13.0-45-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.28) Distro: Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
Machine: System: Dell (portable) product: Latitude E6400
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo P8700 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
clock speeds: max: 2535 MHz 1: 1596 MHz 2: 1596 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1280x800@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express
GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 17.2.8 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-45-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efe0 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
driver: wl bus-ID: 0c:00.0
IF: wlp12s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (14.3% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: HITACHI_HTS72501 size: 160.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 143G used: 18G (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.24GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 171 Uptime: 2:03 Memory: 780.8/3898.0MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35

[steveblezy]

Hey there. I am running Brave on 2 different distros (different machines), PCLinuxOS and Mint Silvia (KDE)
After a fresh book on either distro, the first launch of Brave takes 8 seconds. Anytime after closing brave, the following launches takes 3 seconds (on either distro). I do remember the first launch after installing did take a little longer for the first time but going from memory, it would be somewhere about the 8-10 second mark.

I have been using Brave for a while now, and this seems to be the pattern that I have seen. On the exact same machines, I have about the same numbers for the first boot and subsequent boots for Firefox.

Steve

[greenguy]

steveblezy

Do you have prelink or preload installed.

I also have Firfox installed and it takes 8 seconds the first time to launch and 3 seconds after that. If I could get Brave to load at that speed that would be great.

[greenguy]

I figured out why Brave takes so long to load. I was clearing out my cache and history when I closed the program and as long as I don't clear out all of it Brave starts up in about 5 seconds.

Thanks for everyone's help.