There are few things as frustrating as having a program update and suddenly break things that were working perfectly before. Case in point, website text size with the latest stable release of Google Chrome. Is there a simple solution to the text size problem? Today’s SuperUser post comes to the rescue to help an unhappy reader get things back to normal.
Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
The Question
SuperUser reader Shadow Wizard wants to know why the text size on all websites has suddenly increased while using Google Chrome:
This morning I opened Google Chrome like I do every day. The text size was suddenly larger than normal on all websites, but I did not change any settings whatsoever.
If I set the zoom level to 90%, it looks fine, but this breaks various things (such as Stack Exchange chat), so I would prefer to avoid it if possible. Setting the font size to small in Chrome’s settings also helps, but then the text size is too small.
I have uninstalled Chrome (deleting local data) and installed it again, but the results are the same. I also tried the beta channel as well, but no change. My Windows 7 system is 64-bit with the display set at 125% from the very beginning (something that I have not changed for years).
What could have caused this and how can it be solved?
This very question on SuperUser turns out to be a good example of demonstrating what I mean:
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While the body itself is small (due to changing the font size in Chrome’s settings), other things are still huge and not affected by the setting.
Is there a solution that will return things to normal for Shadow Wizard?
The Answer
SuperUser contributor Sathya has the answer for us:
This reddit thread seems to suggest that it is a Chrome bug. For now, a temporary workaround is to force HiDPI support in Chrome.
To do this:
- Right click on Chrome’s shortcut link.
- Choose Properties and then add /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1 to the existing target path link to chrome.exe.
- Be sure to close all running Chrome processes from the taskbar before using the shortcut with the new flags.
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