Google Chrome - suddenly everything's bigger

[Deisel Weisel]

Icons at the top bigger, having to turn down the web-page zoom on various sites, because it's all too big now. Anyone else expriencing this?

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Any cure to this?

I've had a quick look on Neowin but couldn't find anything.

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I'm running Windows 7.

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I’m getting other strange happenings, which may or may not be associated with this Chrome glitch. I’ve done a virus/malware scan/delete today and these problems persist:

Links not opening properly: Clicking on links to other websites or photos, that should open in a new tab, only to find the url in that new tab is showing ‘BLANK’ and the link/photo loads in the original tab. Or the same link/photo loads in both tabs. This doesn't happen to all links/photos, just some.

AVG anti-virus warnings: This has gone off regularly today.

Unwanted audio adverts: Seems to happen mostly on eBay. Suddenly an audio spam advert starts playing. I check to see if I have additional tabs left open, from where it might be coming, but there are none, just the one tab. The only way to stop it is to mute my PC’s sound.

Videos not playing: At one of my fave adult entertainment websites, the videos aren’t playing.

Unable to input text at MyFonts Where it allows you to customise text, via the blue button, it refuses to load my text: https://www.myfonts.com/bestsellers/

Things I’m sure are associated with this Chrome glitch but maybe not mentioned already: the usual sandy coloured folder icon is a darker sandy colour. Pages can be slower to fully load, Daily Mail site being one.

Edited by Deisel Weisel on Tuesday 8th November 22:28

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POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

So I found what sounds like the same Chrome glitch discussed on this Chrome Help Forum: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chr...

Nothing has worked for me so far, although I’m not understanding the ‘flags’ thing mentioned. Here’s what I’ve tried, with quotes from that page:

1/ Posted by YZ0, 13th Sep:
I opened the properties of the shortcut, switched to the Compatibility tab and UNCHECKED "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings." I applied the change and relaunched Chrome from that shortcut and problem solved. At least for me. Hopefully this gives someone else the same relief it did for me, or at least a new direction to try.

My note: I have Chrome pinned to my taskbar, right clicking doesn’t bring up ‘Properties’. Instead I find the small Chrome icon via the Start button, right-clicking this does show Properties. This solution didn’t work for me because ‘Disable display scaling on high DPI settings’ wasn’t ticked anyway.

2/ Posted by mark mui, 28th Oct:

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. (Delete any previous links)

My note: If you can’t find properties, see my note for fix 1, above. This fix didn’t work for me.



I've run out of time on my work PC (W7 +Chrome), heading home now. Home PC (W10 +Chrome) I don't have this glitch.

[Deisel Weisel]

Well Jobbo, all of those potential fixes failed for me, so may well have been a dead-end for you too.

My fix was to install Chrome v52, which is the last version before the problamatic v53/54.

You can get it from here: http://www.slimjet.com/chrome/google-chrome-old-ve...

To stop v52 updating back to the latest version, you have to make a change in the registry, as discribed here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chr...

My route to that was slightly different from that link. I'm using Windows 7, and 'Google' was missing when I clicked on 'Policies'. Instead I clicked on'Google' further up the folder list, and followed through with the reg change from there.

Edited by Deisel Weisel on Wednesday 30th November 21:00

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If you do, be sure to make a note of that registry edit, if you want to undo that at some point. Give it 6 months and I’ll try the latest Chrome version again, see if they haven’t cured the bugs by then.

Btw, the problems I listed in my previous posts have gone, all except the links not opening properly problem. If I have one tab open, on say this pistonheads page, then try clicking on that slimjet link, in my previous post (or any other link), a new tab appears and starts loading the clicked-on link, but at the same time my original tab, which was pistonheads, also starts loading the very same slimjet link. Weird. Maybe something in my Chrome ‘settings’ but I couldn’t spot it when I checked.