I need help with UI scaling on Edge

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I need help with UI scaling on Edge

Zophiel 20

So I'm on my Mac using Edge and it seem like the UI of Edge is too small for me.

It also seems like i can't upload image for a reason but to for better imagine the problem the capital "c" letter on the tab name is a little over 2cm tall and wide while I'm sitting over an arm distance away so it make it quite difficult for me to see all the tab or even the URL bar.

My question is that is there any way for me to change the scale of the Edge UI as in software and not the content inside tab like page zoom since from what I read only there's not really a way to change it beside changing your whole screen resolution which I don't want to do.

Thanks

P/s: On Vivaldi there's a settings called User Interface Zoom with a slider which does exactly what I describe (I always wonder why does not all of the browser has this settings despite we are advancing to the 4k monitor which really scale down every thing, maybe it's a coding issue but still)

My specifications are:

Dell U2713HM

Mac Pro Mid 2010

Edge Version 150.0.4078.50 (Official build) (x86_64)

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Hello Zophiel,

Your read is right. Edge (Chromium) doesn't have a UI-only zoom setting like Vivaldi's User Interface Zoom slider, so page zoom and per-site zoom won't affect the tabs or address bar. There's no native way to scale just the interface.

The only workaround I'm aware of is launching Edge with the --force-device-scale-factor flag. On a Mac you'd run it from Terminal, something like:

"/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge" --force-device-scale-factor=1.25

Bump the number (1.25, 1.5, etc.) until the UI feels right. It scales the whole browser, so you may want to dial page zoom back down a little to compensate. Also, it can look slightly blurry and won't persist unless you set it up to launch that way each time.

Last, it might be worth sending as a request through Feedback Hub or the "Send feedback" option in Edge.

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