Expected result: For Brave to display brightness/color like the rest of the OS.
Brave Version( check About Brave): Brave 1.83.118 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Additional Information: Problem was observed on CachyOS after running updates and restarting. Above pictures show Brave on left, Librewolf on right - All elements on the Brave browser appear shaded. I have disabled and ensured extensions like âDark Readerâ are not having an impact.
If we think the issue may be OS specific I can attempt discussing with the Cachy community, but my current assumption is thereâs some flag or config somewhere darkening the display(?)
Any ideas appreciated, thank you.
Any ideas are appreciated, Iâve gone through my browser settings and tried disabling all extensions, canât seem to identify whatâs causing the shade.
CachyOS offers a variety of popular Desktop Environments, Wayland Compositors and X11 Window Managers including KDE Plasma, GNOME, XFCE, i3, Wayfire, LXQt, Openbox, Cinnamon, COSMIC, UKUI, LXDE, Mate, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland and Sway. Select your preferred environment during the online installation process.
In a Brave Browser New Window, go to: brave://version and retrieve the OS info . . . and report that, too.
Suggestion: In a Brave Browser New Window, go to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData and for each of the 3 tabs (Basic, Advanced, On exit), clear cache and cookies (and anything else that you wish to clear). For the Basic and Advanced tabs, be sure to clear for All time. And then Exit / Quit everything and restart your Linux OS machine.
My installation is from the CachyOS repositories. For troubleshooting, I also installed a fresh copy of Brave via Flatpak that runs in a sandbox - IE completely vanilla separate installation with a stock configuration and no extensions, and it had the same shaded effect.
Iâm using KDE desktop environment.
Canât seem to find any ideas on this.
No difference between Light and Dark themes from the âAppearanceâ settings. Iâve also tried changing between GTK, QT, and Classic themes, but no difference.
Edit: It seems related to HDR. If I disable HDR on my monitor, then Librewolf and Brave look identical (but the whole screen then is dim, not just Brave). So something with Brave isnât jivving with HDR it seems.
Iâm on KDE and Wayland, not sure if there could be an issue somewhere there. I made a topic on the Cachy forums as well to see if there may be ideas there.
You might try disabling GPU acceleration and see if that helps â in Brave, brave://settings/system then toggle Use Graphics Acceleration [...] âoffâ.
Thank you, that seems to have fixed it. Curious now if Iâve only had this problem since one of the more recent system updates I did, or if Iâve been browsing like this for some time and for whatever reason only recently noticed.
@viejo just to be incredibly clear, it doesnât âfix itâ but was more of a troubleshooting step to narrow down the problem. Disabling graphics acceleration is saying not to use your GPU but instead rely on your CPU.
While technically might work, this can result in poorer performance and certainly in increasing the burden on your CPU. The vital aspect here is that thereâs something between your graphics card (settings) and Brave thatâs problematic. It could be needing to set the app specific setting differently in your graphics card, such as through NVIDIA Control Panel, might need new drivers, etc.
If youâd rather not jump through hoops to figure it out and things seem to work well with no issues, then can leave it as you have it. But I did want to make sure to point all of this out just in case.
