How to customize animation speed in Brave.

Overview

Brave is built on Chromium, which means it shares many under-the-hood features with Google Chrome—including experimental flags, developer tools and support for Chrome extensions. While Brave doesn’t offer a direct “animation speed” slider in its normal settings, you can still customize or disable animations in three primary ways: via experimental flags, via browser extensions, or via manual overrides in DevTools.

Method 1: Using Experimental Flags

Chromium browsers include an “Animation Policy” flag that lets you disable or limit animations globally. It doesn’t let you set a precise speed multiplier, but it’s a quick way to reduce motion or turn off animations entirely.

Step-by-Step Guide

• In Brave’s address bar, type brave://flags and press Enter.
• Search the page for Animation Policy or simply animation.
• In the drop-down menu next to Animation Policy, choose one of the following:
  • Enabled (Disables all animations)
  • Enabled — Prefers-reduced-motion (Respects website “reduce motion” requests)
  • Disabled (Default behavior)
• Click Relaunch at the bottom to restart Brave with the new setting.

Notes

• This flag globally reduces or disables animations—it does not offer granular speed control.
• You may need to experiment with “Prefers-reduced-motion” to see how websites react.

Method 2: Installing a Chrome Extension

If you need finer control—such as speeding up or slowing down CSS animations and transitions—you can install a dedicated extension from the Chrome Web Store. Brave supports most Chrome extensions out of the box.

Popular Extensions

• Animation Speed Control – adds a slider to adjust animation-duration and transition-duration on any page.
• Easy Animation Controller – simple buttons to step through frames or change playback rate.

How to Install

1. Visit the Chrome Web Store page for the chosen extension.
2. Click Add to Brave (or Add to Chrome).
3. Confirm by selecting Add extension.
4. After installation, look for the extension icon next to the address bar.
5. Open any website, click the icon, and adjust the speed slider as needed.

Method 3: Manual Overrides in DevTools

For site-specific tweaks or one-off tests, you can use Brave’s Developer Tools to override CSS animation properties directly.

Steps to Override Animation Speed

• Open the page you want to customize.
• Press Ctrl Shift I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd Option I (macOS) to open DevTools.
• In the Elements panel, locate the element whose animation you wish to adjust.
• In the Styles sidebar, look for rules containing animation-duration or transition-duration.
• Double-click the duration value (e.g., “0.5s”) and change it to your desired speed (e.g., “0.2s” to speed up, “2s” to slow down).
• Press Enter—the change applies instantly so you can preview the effect.

Pro Tip

You can also add a new rule at the bottom of the Styles pane:

• selector { animation-duration: 1s !important transition-duration: 1s !important }

Summary of Options

Final Considerations

While Brave doesn’t bundle a built-in animation-speed slider in its standard settings, these three methods give you everything from broad on/off control to precision tuning on a per-element basis. Choose the approach that best matches your goals—whether it’s simply reducing motion for accessibility, speeding up repetitive UI transitions, or experimenting with new design effects in real time.