How do I reduce the font size on tabs in Chrome in Ubuntu?

Question

The tabs in Ubuntu (Xubuntu 14.04) have a larger font than Firefox. See comparison in attached image. How do I reduce this size?

Solution 1

As a Mint user ( using the same Ubuntu packages ) , I've found that everything was fine in Chromium up until 41.0.2272.76-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1076. Since then, the fonts in tabs, menus and bookmarks have grown by about 2pt as per the screenshots.

Chrome itself is still displaying correctly with the smaller font size. I have google-chrome-stable 41.0.2272.89-1 installed.

Solution 2

Click with the right button of mouse on the Chrome shortcut and "Properties".

Use this: chromium-browser --force-device-scale-factor=0.5

Now you can scale whatever you want, even bigger shit like factor=2 :D

Solution 3

From here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/GCd_JxQ33cU

I found something of a workaround for my own system. You probably know about your ~/.Xdefaults file, Well, it turns out there is a default value that helps. Modify the file, and reload using the command xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults. Then restart Chrome browser, and, -- voila -- the tab font got larger. The lines I added are as follows:

!! Xft settings help the problem with small font in google chromium tabs! 
!! Xft.dpi: 96  is the setting that makes the tab font larger 
Xft.dpi: 96 
Xft.antialias: true 
Xft.rgba: rgb 
Xft.hinting: true 
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight 

I found the above in a thread where people were talking about improving the appearance of fonts in chrome on Linux, and discovered that the 96dpi setting has the side-effect of increasing the font size on the tabs. I should say that I am NOT a font expert, so I cannot guarantee this will work on any system (possible depending on what fonts you have installed?), but I'd say it is quick and worth a try.

Solution 4

For window managers that do not handle the font settings correctly, you can use your ~/.Xdefaults file. Set Xft.dpi to e.g. 96:

Xft.dpi: 96

And issue the command xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults. Then restart your browser to see the effects of the settings. Tweak the dpi value until you are satisfied.

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