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Google Chrome is zoomed in


No, Ctrl + 0 obviously does not work. This is an issue with the program as the entire program looks zoomed in. Everything, not just the webpage.

Found a "quick fix" solution from post #38 here:

  1. Right click on the Chrome link on your desktop
  2. Choose Properties and then add " /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1" to the existing Link to your path to chrome.exe.

Hope this works permanently. What a hassle.


If you're experiencing a "zoomed in" browser it's because you have an updated version of Chrome. Chrome and FireFox now adjusts the page zoom level according to your Windows settings to better support high DPI displays. For example, if Windows is set to 125% font size (120dpi), the content area will be zoomed by 25%. This is usually the default setting on your computer.

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This means that your updated Chrome and/or FireFox browser will automatically set websites to 125%, and all other browsers remain at 100%.

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What are possible solutions?
As of this writing, their isn't a known method of fixing this from a web coding standpoint, due to that it's created from the inner workings of the browser. That being said, their are still some things you can do from the "users" side to fix this:

  1. The quickest way around this is to open up your browser and press on your keyboard "ctrl -" (control minus) twice. This will set your website content to 75%, which would be equivalent to 100% in all other browsers (but this will just fix the website content).
  2. You can set your computers font-size settings in your control panel to "100%". This will make all of your computer fonts smaller.

I'm sure their is a better answer to this, but for now these are the 2 options that I'm seeing. In FireFox version 22 they also added this feature (as mentioned above), you can see the work around for FireFox here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/962979

I'm sure a similar solution also exist with Chrome.


You can change your windows default zoom to 100% in display settings and make everything almost unreadable, or (a better way)

You can add a start parameter to your chrome shortcut:

"your-chrome-dir\chrome.exe" /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1

I know, it's too late, but just in case someone else has this problem...