This is just the most bizarre behavior: certain Web sites I visit automatically zoom in 150% or 200% in Chrome on my MacBook. Which means I have to them immediately zoom OUT so it’s not insanely big type. What’s the fix?
I’ve noticed the same thing on my version of Google Chrome too and I have to say it’s a rather confusing behavior because it seems to just remember the last zoom level you were at for that page and automatically reapply it each time you go back. Helpful sometimes, I suppose, since there are some sites where the text is just too darn small, but there are other times when you want to zoom in for a specific article or photo. And sometimes it seems to refuse to adjust, as I found with my intuitive.com site where every time I went Chrome would show it to me at 200% zoom regardless of the fact that every time I went I immediately unzoomed it (zoomed out?) to 110%
Determined to figure out the problem I rummaged through all the Google Chrome for Mac settings and did finally dig it up, though it’s quite a journey to find it!
Start by going to “Preferences…”
Now make sure you’ve clicked on “Settings” on the left side:
Then you’ll need to scroll down, down, down, until you find this:
Click on “Show advanced settings…” and scroll down even further until you find this:
Still hard to know that this is where you need to go, isn’t it?
Click on “Content settings…” and scroll down until you find “Zoom Levels”:
One more click and, finally, you’ll see what’s going on. Click on “Manage…”
Ahhh…. so you can see that on some sites my default zoom level is less than 100% and on others it’s quite a bit higher. How I got to 175% on bp.blogspot.com I have no idea as I don’t recall ever going to that site.
This page doesn’t let you search so you’ll have to just scroll down to find the site in question. For me, it’s intuitive.com, as I said earlier, and here’s what I found:
Once you put the cursor over the entry, you can see that an “x” shows up. Click it and the zoom level entry vanishes from the Google Chrome settings.
Fixed!
It’s 2022 and this is still relevant… the menus look a bit different, but I still managed to find it. Thanks!
Even in 2019, this page is *still* saving lives.
You’re the best. Thanks.
Glad to hear it, and saving lives too. Impressive! 🙂
Thanks so much!!!
Thank you! This was really helpful!
Thank you! No idea how Amazon got so zoomed, but this fixed it.
This was so helpful! Exactly what I needed. Thank you!!
Having same issue… when i go to the zoom option on the browser, it indicates that I am already at 100%. Zooming it out basically zooms it out and gets distorted and not to the original clean 100% zoom. The Zoom Levels frame you show is blank on mine. So, I think i may have the same issue but your suggestion may not be the cause.
It zooms in and it’s similar to a double tap on an ipad where you zoom into a specific text frame on a webpage on a browser.
Thank you for posting the walk through on how to customize individual website zoom levels on Google! I couldn’t figure out why Amazon was the only site that was zoomed in too much…now I know and was able to fix it.
Thank you!!
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