Read our full review of the Brave browser to learn more. If you decide to start using Brave, the browser lets you easily import bookmarks and settings from your previous browsers. There’s a social media blocking section as well as a private window with Tor connectivity that hides your IP address from websites you visit. In addition to being lightweight, Brave has other privacy-focused features that can help you remain anonymous on the web. Brave, on the other hand, didn’t create any Subframes and kept CPU and RAM consumption to a minimum. The Subframe processes also consumed CPU and memory footprint running into hundreds of megabytes. Brave Task Manager (left) vs Chrome’s Task Manager (right).Ĭhrome also ran several background processes (called Subframes) for each website we opened.