Chrome Zoom sucks!

[Berryracer]

So I recently switched from Firefox to Chrome due to the bloatware Mozilla keeps addings to Firefox.

I love the snappiness of Chrome but one issue I'm facing is the zoom levels. @ 100%, everything looks tiny as my resolution is 1920x1080 on my tiny 18.4 screen. If I do 110% or 125% zoom in the settings, it looks grat, but many websites display incorrectly like my banking website and many others with the borders all wrong and stuff, examples:

And here is another site showing a misalignment if zoomed in:

http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html

How do you guys deal with zoom levels? Any suggestions for me?

 

[ninaholic37]

How do you guys deal with zoom levels?

I do not buy laptops with screens over 1024x768. Even 1400x900 and 1280x800 were too annoying, having to add zoom to everything in browser and windows and things still never looked right or equal. Death to 16:9! :awe:

 

[Berryracer]

I do not buy laptops with screens over 1024x768. Even 1400x900 and 1280x800 were too annoying, having to add zoom to everything in browser and windows and things still never looked right or equal. Death to 16:9! :awe:

Yes Laptop manufacturers keep bragging about HD screens and now the nightmare.......4K screens, imagine how bad everything would look with the default 250% DPI scaling of a 4K screen! LOL

But I have no choice, with these latest gaming laptops the minimum is an HD screen and even on an 18.4" screen, things look tiny without DPI scaling

 

[postmortemIA]

Yes Laptop manufacturers keep bragging about HD screens and now the nightmare.......4K screens, imagine how bad everything would look with the default 250% DPI scaling of a 4K screen! LOL

But I have no choice, with these latest gaming laptops the minimum is an HD screen and even on an 18.4" screen, things look tiny without DPI scaling

not apple fanboy here, but really only apple in osx has solved the scaling problem with HiDPI devices. Broswers on Windows will upscale images with blurriness when you zoom.

hat's why i keep using firefox, at least it has option to do text zoom only, which keeps images sharp.

 

[Morbus]

So I recently switched from Firefox to Chrome due to the bloatware Mozilla keeps addings to Firefox.

That's funny, because Chrome is much heavier than Firefox and has much more bloat

gaming laptops

That's an oxymoron.

 

[Berryracer]

not apple fanboy here, but really only apple in osx has solved the scaling problem with HiDPI devices. Broswers on Windows will upscale images with blurriness when you zoom.

hat's why i keep using firefox, at least it has option to do text zoom only, which keeps images sharp.

True, I might have to switch to to Firefox it seems since there isn't a solution for this I googled before asking

 

[Berryracer]

That's funny, because Chrome is much heavier than Firefox and has much more bloat


That's an oxymoron.

When I click on a link in my bookmarks or load facebook for example, with Chrome there is 0 lag, the page and the images all load instantly. With Firefox, there is a 1 to 2 second lag before the page even starts rendering then when it does, compared to Chrome, it looks like it's loading in slowmotion.

PS: Firefox fanboy here so not defending Chrome or being biased just honest

PS: what does Oxymoron mean? I googled it but I still don't get the meaning

 

[daveybrat]

I only use Chrome on Windows 8.1 Pro also and currently have my zoom set to 125% and all of the sites i frequent look fine. Including my Chase banking and TDameritrade.

 

[Morbus]

PS: what does Oxymoron mean? I googled it but I still don't get the meaning

I'm not a native speaker, so I may be wrong.

An oxymoron is paradoxical statement.

 

[Berryracer]

nevermind, switched back to Firefox

 

[sweenish]

When I click on a link in my bookmarks or load facebook for example, with Chrome there is 0 lag, the page and the images all load instantly. With Firefox, there is a 1 to 2 second lag before the page even starts rendering then when it does, compared to Chrome, it looks like it's loading in slowmotion.

Because Chrome pre-loads sites. Which means ALL the links are sitting in your RAM.

Also, page load speed has zero bearing on bloat. Open your task manager, add up all the chrome processes, and compare that with Firefox.

Also, Chrome never fully closes ever since they introduced their app center. It's opt-out.

But please, go on about it's not bloated because a site can load quickly.

 

[Ketchup]

For comparison, if you load your banking page at 120% in IE, does it show any differently?

 

[Berryracer]

For comparison, if you load your banking page at 120% in IE, does it show any differently?

Can't tell man, I have IE uninstalled.

 

[Ketchup]

Can't tell man, I have IE uninstalled.

Unless Firefox does fine at the same things, you would want to see if the website developer or browser is to blame.

For the record, I never use Chrome for more than a day or two. It is usually the memory usage or the page display (usually the font) that reminds my why I left the last time.

 

[Hugh Jass]

All browsers suck in various ways...just the fact of internet life now.

 

[Berryracer]

Unless Firefox does fine at the same things, you would want to see if the website developer or browser is to blame.

For the record, I never use Chrome for more than a day or two. It is usually the memory usage or the page display (usually the font) that reminds my why I left the last time.

This is what happens to me everytime dawg.....I see everyone using Chrome and I'm like, I must be missing something......... so I switch.... works great for the first hour, I enjoy the snappiness, then some quirk comes up, like the zoom level, or like the stupid auto fill that keeps filling in ancient fields / usernames that I don't have anymore and even if I delete them or SHIFT delete them they keep coming back, heck even if I disable auto fill completely it doesn't matter, the moment I click on a field it shows all the previous entries I have entered since years..... that causes issues with LastPass, LastPass tries to insert a certain username but Chrom automatically changes it to something it picked randomly from my old fields / emails....... Even after 43 versions and many complaints bout this zooming issue, Google cannot get it to work right......DPI scaling on Chrome simply sucks.........on Firefox it's perfect