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Magnifying Glass for Google Chrome™

by Thomas David

v3.0.0 Updated Sep 15, 2022 169KiB
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20K
Users
★ 4.03
36 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over 2 years

Description

This magnifying glass extension shows a zoomed in area within the radius of the magnifying glass, without affecting the rest of the webpage. Simply press Alt + Z to use the magnifying glass after installing the extension! Then press any key to remove it. You can also choose to use the right click menu to switch on the magnifying glass feature. Inside the options page for this extension, you can choose to modify the settings. 1) Choose the amount of zoom/magnification you want to use 2) Choose the diameter of the magnifying glass Its extremely easy to use and is a great help for webpages where parts of the page has extremely small text. Disclaimer: Please note this extension is NOT made by Google and is made by an independent development team. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. Google doesn’t endorse or sponsor this Chrome extension. Magnifying Glass for Google Chrome™ is not owned by, is not licensed by and is not a subsidiary of Google Inc.
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Reviews (4 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-10
Alex Boyko

Does not work on resized window.

★☆☆☆☆2022-02-13
Pat MySecret

It's neither trusted by the system, nor does it work well.

★★☆☆☆2025-03-24
Terry Canaan

It's OK. But when you scroll, the magnifying effect is lost and you have to click the button again. A huge pain. Might not be so bad if you could use a key combo to enable it, but that doesn't seem possible. So if you need to scroll through a page and magnify, it becomes a slow and tedious process.

★★☆☆☆2024-08-26
A A

Doesn't zoom on the spot your mouse is pointing at. Hence, unusable. Would have been excellent otherwise.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 3.0.0
Updated Sep 15, 2022
Size 169KiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026