Google Chorme has been using more significant Energey!

Operating near the limits of storage capacity will cause churn.

I’d try the following steps, and see if any help with this:

• exit Flameshot, and iAvro, as a test.
• discontinue use of Cloudflare WARP, and see if the equivalent iCloud+ Private Relay with ODoH works better.
• remove the cleaner app. That app also doesn’t look completely installed / completely removed, either.
• get external backups going, whether with Time Machine or otherwise. The only way to mark data as being valuable is with backups.
• free up storage.

If you’re not running macOS 15.5, update.

If you’re running any add-on security apps, add-on VPN apps, add-on cleaner apps, or other such apps, those tend to be resource intensive. And ad-blocking and other browser extensions can sometimes have issues.

Please then download and run (free) EtreCheck, and share the results to the clipboard. Then open a new reply here, and press the Additional Text button that looks like a printed page, and paste and post the hardware and software configuration report here. From that, we can get a little more detail about what is installed and what is running here.

For reference, here’s the battery cycle count info: Determine battery cycle count for Mac laptops - Apple Support

As mentioned in other replies, Google apps have acquired a reputation for being power-consumptive, and data-acquisitive. Whether that’s a factor here is unclear.

• Your CCCleaner has not been successfully uninstalled. Notice the remnant files still left over saying the Application cannot be found.
• The common app related to the different browsers is CloudFare Warp. Uninstall and test.
• Your Google Keystore processes continue to run no matter what browser you are using. Remove those also and compare your results using a browser other than Chrome. It is those Keystone files that are not signed that are problematic and not needed for any other browser.

https://chromeisbad.com/

There are 3 folders that you want to review for these files to make sure they have been uninstalled. You can go to Finder, then choose the Go menu and select Go to Folder, and paste each of these locations there.

/Library/LaunchDaemons

/Library/LaunchAgents

~/Library/LaunchAgents

Once you get your computer back to its normal operation, then add CloudFare back if you wish and compare. Google Chrome is going to be problematic as far as energy usage, heat, CPU cycles, and it always has.

Could anyone please help me understand why this might be happening, and if there are any solutions or optimizations I can try to reduce energy consumption and system heat while browsing?

It seems to me the only folks in the know about "why" will be at Google. Chrome has always played the role of fat hog at the trough.

I suggest trying the Brave Browser. It uses similar t Google in function but has less overhead.

You can, by using Activity Monitor, take note of what web sites are acting piggish. I'm finding more and more sites that cause an increased workload regardless of browser.

Chrome is also open-source. It's built on top of the same Chromium code as Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and Microsoft's Edge browsers.

Chrome's distinct difference is the massive marketing data mining it does the entire time your computer is running. They neither tell you about it, nor pay you for your personal information.

I'm completely serious when I say no one, anywhere, should use Chrome. Ever!

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