Large Memory Consumption while watching videos on social media sites like Youtube

[IAmAlwaysThere]

Description

Its taking a disproportionate amount of RAM and other resources when I watch long videos or keep the browser open for a couple of hours, I tried this with Chrome and Firefox and they didn't take as much resources.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a video sharing site like Youtube, Twitch, etc.
2. Click on a long video and watch or leave it open for a couple of hours.
3. Now, the tab must be taking a crazy amount of RAM.

Actual result

Tabs taking upwards of a Gigabyte of RAM

Expected result

Tabs should take RAM proportionate to the task, not more than a gigabyte just to watch a video.

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.70.119 Chromium: 129.0.6668.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Channel information

• release (stable)
• beta
• nightly

Reproducibility

• with Brave Shields disabled
• with Brave Rewards disabled
• in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

I've tried turning the Hardware Acceleration both On and Off but it doesn't seem to resolve the Issue, I've clearing the Cache but the Issue persists.

[rebron]

cc: @atuchin-m

[rebron]

cc: @atuchin-m