PLEASE do something about font size in tabs/menu!

Hi,

The font size is ridiculously small on tabs and right click menu, as well as icons in the right bar. This issue has been going on for at least 4 years, yet nothing has been done by Brave developers … absolutely nothing!

I have in mind to go back to Firefox, as at least there you can modify the size.

Even if you could tell us if the fonts are built in/gtk/qt2/qt3 but through all the posts I have waded through on this issue NO ONE has even bothered to come up with a suggestion.

The font size in settings only adjusts the fonts on the web page. Come on guys …

I am on Fedora on an Macbook AIr M1, so high def display.

fwiw …

I’m running Brave under linux (Ubuntu 22.04, gnome) with a 4K monitor and periodically have this issue rear its ugly head upon a new update of the Brave software (ie, the Brave software update overwrites my customizations).

So far the following works for me re: increasing the size of tab/bookmark fonts:

sudo vi /usr/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop

Find all lines that start with Exec= and append --force-device-scale-factor=1.4 on the end of each line, save the file, logout and login for settings to take hold.

NOTES:

  • you may need to adjust the value (1.4 in my case) to fit your needs.
  • for users running WIndows: I’m not currently running any Windows environments so I’m not sure where (if?) the equivalent of the brave-browser.desktop file resides in Windows

In my case:

####
# old lines:

Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --incognito

####
# new lines:

Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U --force-device-scale-factor=1.4
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --force-device-scale-factor=1.4
Exec=/usr/bin/brave-browser-stable --incognito --force-device-scale-factor=1.4

Within Brave settings you can further tweak some font sizes by changing zoom factors. In my case:

open Brave Settings
search on 'zoom'
Page zoom is set to 110%
Customize fonts > Font size (slider) = 15
Customize fonts > Minimum font size (slider) = 14

… adding some more text so community bot doesn’t complain about me posting same info in another thread

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