Change the Default Zoom in Chrome

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we're going to show how to change the default zoom settings in Google Chrome.

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   Open Google Chrome

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   You may notice that you can change the zoom settings by pressing the "command" and "+" keys while you are on a web site

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   If you reopen the same web site, it will zoom in or out to the previous setting for the site

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   If you were to go to a different web site, then the site would appear with the regular zoom setting

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   You can change the default zoom settings by clicking the triple-line icon in the upper-right corner of the window

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   A drop-down menu will appear.

   

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   In the menu, click "Settings"

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   You may need to scroll down

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   Click "Show Advanced Settings" near the bottom of the page under the "Default browser" heading

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   You may need to scroll down again

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    Under "Web content", click the "Page zoom" drop-down menu

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    Click a percentage

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    For this tutorial, let's click "150 %".

    

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    Now, go back to the last web site

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    It is cnn.com in this video. You will see that the content will be zoomed to 150 %.

    

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    Now, reload the other web site

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    You will see that its view is also set to 150 %.

    

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    Now, press "command" + "-" to get to the 100% zoom

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    Open a new tab for the same site

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    You'll see that the web site remains zoomed at 100 %, even though the default zoom is now set to 150 %.

    

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