I am still a Linux newbie, so please bear with me. Today, I used the software updater tool to update the apps and systems on my computer. After I did that the main bar for my internet browser, Brave, got huge. The rest of my computer's scaling did not change. The web pages Brave displays are still the same scale. It is just the top bar with all my tabs and stuff that changed. Here is a screenshot of the issue (I brought up the menu in Brave, so it is easy to see how big it is.):
I’d be curious if this is just a Wayland compatibility issue.
You can test this by switching the login session to Xorg.
Here’s how:
Log out of your user account
On the login screen, select your user but before typing in your password, click the gear icon on the bottom right of the screen. Select the “xorg” option then type in your password as normal.
No; It screwed up the resolution of my screen so I didn't change it from 100%.
However, I have changed other scaling settings because just leaving it at 100% made everything on my computer way too small. For example, I changed the text scaling factor in dconf editor. I tried resetting that to its default value and it didn't do anything to fix the issue.
Command 'brave' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo snap install brave
I have installed Brave through the software center though; I checked and it says installed there and I am using it too. So, that seems a little strange.
Could You check if Brave is installed as Snap or Flatpak? Simply type in the Terminal flatpak list for getting a List of installed Flatpak's and snap list for a list of installed Snap's and look where Brave is listed.
If it is listed on one of them, I would suggest to add the Brave-own Repo and install the .deb Version. How You can do that is explained here:
I have the Scaling Factor set to 1.5 and larger fonts is on.
I needed to do that because everything on my computer was tiny with the default settings. Plus, changing the scaling to 200% in settings made everything way too large and fractional scaling made everything blurry. However, changing these settings made everything work nicely.
I tried changing them back to the defaults, but my browser bar thing is still relatively large compared to the rest of my computer, which gets tiny.
I did not see Brave listed when I entered those commands. I looked in the software manager and it doesn't show that I have the Flatpak version installed. It shows something like "Zorin OS APT Package."
Alright, I tried the command Aravisian gave me and it did the same thing as when I opened the browser after setting my device scaling factor to the default setting. The top bar is still relatively large compared to the rest of my browser. the terminal also gave me this error:
[8676:8693:0405/082355.049245:ERROR:nss_util.cc(344)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
I also took a screenshot of my browser, which you can see below:
I would agree and a couple other uses saw some scaling issues with Brave Browser.
Switching to Brave was a very recent and rather hasty thing; There may well be bugs given this Early Access use of Brave browser instead of Mozilla Firefox.
OK, well I guess I will just wait and hope a future update will fix it. I really like Brave, so I will just deal with it being large for now. It doesn't look like there is much I can do about it.
Do you think I could roll back to another version of Brave? Would it be safe to do that; I know it generally isn't recommended?
Thank you all for trying to help me fix this; I appreciate it.
