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Zoom Per Tab

by kthxbye

v1.02 Updated Jul 8, 2023 22.91KiB
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★ 4.53
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Description

Chrome doesn't let you adjust the zooming of different tabs under the same domain independently? Well you found the cure! I know there are a couple of similar extensions out there. At first, I wanted to just download one and save myself some time. I soon realized that existing extensions out there for this purpose are so bulky and complicated. Some of them even ask you to install a daemon process that's available on Windows only - this is real bad, and dangerous, but also real bad. This extension simply makes page zoom settings independent across tabs, regardless of whether they have the same origin. It's ultra-lightweight. It uses a built-in Chrome API, just a few lines of code, no configuration needed at all! You can unpack the extension to verify that it's not doing anything malicious. In fact I encourage everyone to read it because it's so simple. You could've written it yourself! A copy of the source code is at https://github.com/xinan/zoom-per-tab.
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Reviews (14 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-23
Getfree

It doesn't have any customization. It just changes the overall zoom behavior to per-tab. Therefore, the per-domain zoom is no longer possible. Also, in many cases it just doesn't work, such as the new tab or extension tabs. And when it does work, the zoom is lost when you reload the page.

★☆☆☆☆2022-07-19
Mike Flanigan

Doesn't work for me in Edge.

★☆☆☆☆2022-03-07
Himanshu Marathe

Can't figure how to zoom in/out on a Mac.

★☆☆☆☆2021-09-13
Shervin Nejad

It doesn't work for me. Page is always 100% on reload.

★★☆☆☆2023-06-19
Aasemoon

Could have been a great extension, except every time the page refreshes the zoom resets. Unfortunately makes it useless.

★★☆☆☆2023-05-05
Alex G

No longer works

★★☆☆☆2023-03-30
Mk. V Procrastinator

Does as advertised, but like others have reported, going back a page freezes the tab until you reload the page or switch tabs.

★★☆☆☆2022-10-10
Gediminas Lelešius

I think it freezes the tab when you navigate to the previous page.

★★★☆☆2025-01-24
Marvin Cunanan

It will be great if the zoom level is maintained even after refresh.

★★★☆☆2024-01-09
Darien Young

Works well for certain uses. For example having three weather pages open at the same time with different zoom levels set. But refreshing a zoomed in or out page will cause the zoom to reset, which is usually not desirable. Also in some cases navigating back a page in Chrome when this extension is enabled causes the page to freeze. I was wondering for quite a while what was causing this to happen, and then I read some reviews for this extension. It's nice to know that the program is small and simple and that it has minimal requirements. I'm glad the program is small and simple but maybe adding some more options or features would be useful. Would be five stars if it didn't cause freezing and it would remember zoom levels for pages when they are refreshed. Thanks for making this extension and good luck on improving it.

★★★☆☆2023-11-14
James P

This extension causes newer versions of chrome to freeze when going back a page. Pity, its a very useful extension and I use it extensively at work to zoom all my dashboards to the best fit for the page. Hopefully the developers can sort it.

★★★☆☆2022-12-28
Rudy A. Hernandez

Its cool but for some reason once I set a tab from a same domain (say to 150%) it keeps setting other tabs of same domain to 110%

★★★☆☆2021-10-10
Darren

Going back to the search page from a site freezes the page until you switch back and forth between windows, hopefully it will be fixed

★★★☆☆2021-07-20
李宗翰

Simple and effective on UBUNTU 20.04 ! Thank you! Revised: once set, can't reset. Hit reset then refresh the page or change url, the zoom in will be back, manually click the zoom out then refresh the page or change url, the zoom in will be back.

Details

Version 1.02
Updated Jul 8, 2023
Size 22.91KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026