Chrome 54 stable has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, and available for download. After upgrading from Chrome 53 to 54, have you noticed your browser UI looks big and zoomed In even though the Zoom level was set to 100%, you’re not alone, this has been the issue for users having high-DPI displays.
When the DPI Scaling level is 125% or greater, then DPI virtualization will be enabled for all applications on Windows. Chrome is one such application, that now honors the Windows DPI setting. It detects DPI of display used and scales graphical elements, text and screen layout in the browser accordingly.
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Fix Chrome 54 looks Zoomed In
There are two ways to fix Chrome scaling issues without needing to change Windows DPI setting. Try the fix one, restart the browser. If that doesn’t work. Try the second one. Expect either of two to work. Don’t try to launch Chrome by applying two fix instructions at once, as that may not work.
Update: Second solution has worked for most.
I.
1. Right click on Chrome shortcut on the desktop, select Properties
2. Click on Compatibility tab and check ‘Disable display scaling on high DPI Settings‘
3. Click OK.
Or
II. 1. Right click on Chrome desktop shortcut, select Propeties,
2. Add the below switch in the Target field after Chrome.exe”. Note: you need to leave a single space before appending this.
/high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1
Chrome target field should be like this after adding the above:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1
3. Right click on Chrome shortcut and pin it to taskbar, now launch Chrome.
Note: Before trying the fixes mentioned above, check Zoom level in Chrome and scaling level, here is how you can do that.
For Chrome, visit Settings > click on Advanced Settings, under Web Content, check ‘Page Zoom’, it should be set to default 100%
READ: Firefox 51: Zoom Indicator in URL bar
Reset Websites Zoom Level to Default in Firefox browser
Windows: Open Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Display, click on ‘Set a custom level’. or right click on desktop, select ‘Display Settings’ and look for the ‘Change the size of text, apps and other items’ value.
Second option has helped. Thanks
Thanks for the tip. The second option worked perfectly for me (Windows 7). I just had to be sure and change the properties setting in my “All Programs” list since I don’t get the option to edit properties from the taskbar shortcut. Also, I had to remove my taskbar shortcut and re-add it since the target launch settings were updated. Thanks.
Second option it’s perfect to me in Windows 7. Thanks
Second solution works perfectly! Thanks!
The first solution won’t work on Chrome 53 or above because it now reports and a DPI-aware application. The second solution does however.
It is a bad implementation of DPI scaling since i think it is meant to scale interface elements only but in Chrome (as well as in Firefox) it also scales content elements which defeats the purpose of having a high-DPI display.
Thanks for the solution! Otherwise i had to switch away from Chrome which would be sad since i generally like this browser.
None of them works.
Only if I turn the windows scaling back to 100%, but then the whole windows is getting very small.
It is a double edge knife, please help.
Sony Vaio flip – 13 inch 1080p
Windows 10 latest version
Even the second solution is not 100% since when Chrome is opened by choosing a web link anywhere in Windows (so not starting the app directly) it will start the scaled browser.
both patches above only fix HALF the problem!
with chrome as default browser, any link opening chrome starts the scaled browser. any fix for this?
why isn’t this a bigger issue for more people?
Please enable this flag and let us know its working fully for you, so that we can update post. chrome://flags/#enable-use-zoom-for-dsf
enabling blink’s flag did not work. Any time browser is opened from a link, it opens huge. If opened from a chrome icon (desktop or taskbar), it opens with the proper reduced scale. I am stumped for now…
The second solution worked perfectly, thank you!
I’m spending MORE TIME just fixing the SIZE of the UI, the BAR is HUGE and takes up a LOT of real estate, and all my pages open at the wrong size. I hate this update. I’m moving to firefox.
Sally, you’re going to be in for a surprise: Firefox has had this “feature” for a long time, it’s one of the main reasons I don’t use Firefox more often. Try the second option, then restart your computer — it worked for me and clearly a lot of others here.
You have to do both parts for it to work. I read from other comments that the second worked. So I did just that but nothing worked, so I tried part one but kept the high DPI thing in the Target field. Once I clicked the disable high DPI scale and restarted it was back to normal.
Your welcome everybody
Yay, second one worked for. Sick of Google…
Finally found the propper fix for this! I have to agree with @Adrew Wiorek post above. If you complaining about the size of the Chrome 54 status bar/tabs bar (after upodate to v. 54 they became way too big) then you have to apply both solution at the same time and set site scale in Chrome options to 125% like you have in Windows einvironment.
Forcing device scale factor returned my Chrome to normal, thanks alot.
After restarting my computer Chrome looked off again, so I went back to this page to see what fixes I had applied and whether or not they were still there. Andrew is correct, you need both of these fixes in order for it to work. I imagine I turned off high-dpi scaling fix after trying it and not succeeding, and I guess it didn’t take effect until restart.
However I don’t think Rafal’s suggestion to set ‘Page zoom’ (I assume that’s what he’s referring to when he said “site scale”) to 125% is correct. My ‘Page zoom’ has always been at 100% and the pages only started looking wonky after this latest update. After applying the fixes suggested in this article the pages look fine. In fact, if I set page zoom to 125% it looks wonky again (the same way it looked wonky before I applied the fixes).
The second option run perfectly…great thanks from Germany…;-)
YESSSSSS! Thank you! I thought I was the only one who noticed!
These fixes are not perfect for people like me (24″ monitor). The second fix works but the interface becomes tiny, much like fixes for Firefox when it first began to honour DPI scaling.
Looks like the only option is to globally zoom out on all pages to 80%.
Second fix worked perfectly! Thanks so much. :)
To fix command-line parameters for Chrome opened by clicking on link in any other application, you can modify registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command
adding
/high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1
after exe-name and before “–“, for example
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1 — “%1”
This worked for me.
None of the fixes above work. Still huge! I’m so sick and tired of Google, always messing things up with every single update!
I had no luck with Option 1 in Windows 7. However, Option 2 worked for me after I unpinned and repinned my Chrome shortcut from my taskbar. If you keep using your shortcut after making changes, it opens with the “old” settings. You have to repin your shortcut that has the “fix” applied. Worked after that.
After you do the fix here–
Right click your Chrome taskbar icon. Click “unpin this program from taskbar”
Go into all programs and right click on Google Chrome. Click “pin to taskbar”
This deletes your pin that has the old settings and replaces it with a pin that has the fix applied.
The second fix worked great, thank you so much!!
I have found that the best solution is to simply change Chrome’s default zoom level to compensate for the new zoomed look without doing the changes mentioned in this article. The formula for calculating the new default zoom is:
(100 / Your DPI scaling level) x Your current default zoom level
So, if your DPI scaling level is 125% and your current default zoom is 100% then your new default zoom level should be:
(100 / 125) x 100 = 80%
This solution has the advantage of working regardless of whether Chrome is started by a desktop shortcut or by some other means.
I forgot to mention… To change Chrome’s default zoom level go to Settings > Show advanced settings > Web content > Page zoom
This doesnt fix the over zoomed tabs/menus/bookmarks/everything else tho
i’ve tried what seems like every combination and permutation of the solutions in this article and in the comments, and no dice. to make sure chrome has fully closed in between attempts, i’ve ended up restarting my computer about 5 times in the process. any suggestions? windows 10 here.
Ensure after adding flag to Chrome target field, pin to taskbar. You should know you should not launch Chrome from regular Shortcut on desktop or from pinned icon on taskbar.
yeah. i’ve normally got chrome pinned to taskbar. i’ve tried doing the changes to the pinned chrome, i’ve tried unpinning and doing the changes to a newly-made desktop shortcut and then opening it, i’ve tried adding the flag to the chrome shortcut in the start menu. for some reason nothing’s doing it. hopefully google rolls out some sort of patch at some point.
No they won’t. Change is here to stay or better try to change Windows scaling to see it fixes the problem.
Every one complaining that now web sites seem bigger in google chrome, is actually the other way around, for a long time google chrome was the only web broswer that showed the pages smaller on high dpi screen… if you do a comparision side by side now google shows websites exactly like firefox or edge.. with previous versions of chrome you had to zoom 125% to get the same result.
Thank you, it works the second method.
win7/64
Thank you very much! The second one – is THE one =)
The second option worked, although I have to reset it everytime I restart my PC. I really like Chrome other than this one issue, so I’d like to find a permanent fix.