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Zoom for Google Chrome

by Stefan vd

v2.8.25 Updated Dec 29, 2025 400KiB
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Description

Are you tired of struggling to zoom in and out of web pages? Look no further! The Zoom browser extension is the ultimate solution, featuring an intuitive slider and zoom buttons for effortless navigation. Ranked as the number one and best magnifying browser extension, it allows you to customize the zoom value of any webpage, enhancing readability and comfort. Zoom is a lightweight and useful add-in designed to get a perfect zoom experience. Whether you are dealing with bad vision issues, myopia, lazy eye, or amblyopia, this extension can enhance your vision on any website. Simply increase the zoom slider to select your preferred scale. Additionally, you have the option to switch between the zoom engine, allowing you to zoom the entire page or only text zoom. Browser extension features: ◆ Slider Zoom: The slider offers a perfect zoom experience, allowing you to adjust the zoom factor from 1 up to 400. ◆ Scroll and Zoom: Click the Z button and scroll up or down with your mouse to witness live changes in the webpage's zoom. ◆ Zoom All Together In/Out: Enable this option to simultaneously zoom in/out on all open web pages. ◆ Save Website Zoom Value: Automatically save the current zoom value of a website, ensuring it is restored when you return. Easily reset to default zoom with the "Reset" button. ◆ Zoom Engine Options: Choose between the default browser zoom engine, the CSS website style zoom, or the font-size engine for text adjustment. The font-size engine will specifically increase or decrease the text on that website while preserving the page's layout and formatting. ◆ Manage Zoom for Each Website: Edit or remove zoom values for specific websites in the options page. That according to the domain or web page level. By utilizing the web page level and the built-in zoom engine, it enables the browser's built-in zoom per tab. ◆ Display Options: - Show Zoom value percent number in the Z button as a badge. - Display right-click context menu with necessary zoom percentages. - Display right-click context menu with your chosen zoom percentages. - Hold mouse click and scroll to zoom in or out. - Include visual cues, such as a circle or square magnifying glass around the cursor. Specify the magnifier glass size, and zoom scale to determine the degree of magnification. ◆ Set Default Zoom: Choose default zoom ratio and zoom step for a personalized experience. ◆ Video and Web Enhancement: Improve your video entertainment by enlarging web pages and increasing video player sizes on platforms like YouTube™ and HTML5 video. You can achieve this with the widely-used Turn Off the Lights browser extension, which dims the surrounding area around the video player, providing a more immersive viewing environment. ◆ Custom Zoom Keyboard Combinations: - Shortcut to display the magnifying glass. - Shortcut to zoom in. - Shortcut to zoom out. - Shortcut to reset zoom value. ◆ Zoom Popup Design Options: - Choose between a minimalist popup design. - Opt for a larger popup window for enhanced accessibility. - Explore the new default modern panel with direct control of your magnifying glass. ◆ Support for Dark Mode Project Information: https://www.stefanvd.net/project/zoom/browser-extension/ Required Permissions: ◆ "contextMenus": Add Zoom percentage levels to the web browser context menu. ◆ "tabs": Manage zoom on open tabs, show welcome/guide page, and access Options page. ◆ "storage": Save settings locally and sync with your web browser account. ◆ "<all_urls>": Control the button on all websites, including http, https, ftp, and file. Note: Windows: CTRL and + or CTRL and - Linux: CTRL and + or CTRL and - Mac: ⌘ and + or CTRL and - Performing the same action is possible with this browser extension. However, this extension enhances user experience by enabling you to adjust the zoom to a custom percentage with greater ease. <<< Option feature >>> Unlock an option feature to protect your eyes at night and focus on the video player, such as YouTube™, by installing Turn Off the Lights browser extension for YouTube and Beyond. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turn-off-the-lights/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn
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Reviews (150 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-21
KC 1920

This doesn't work at all. The middle of the page constantly goes blank. That is so annoying. You lose your place on the page & it wastes a lot of time. It's easier to take a snip of whatever I want enlarged , open up photoshop and enlarge that way. Much easier.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-05
Jihong Suk

dosen't work

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-08
Tony

Does not work. Every new page resets to 100%

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-17
Marcos Reyes

Long time user. Stopped working as new site settings couldn't be added. Reinstalled losing all my settings as dev said no way to backup. Stopped working a second time after a few months, in that the dialogue would only pop up for the first site visited when starting chrome. When it works , effective on 4/5 websites. Found another extension called Custom Page Zoom. Looks much better. Hopefully will work better.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-25
siren synapse

What would be really useful was if you made the native zoom +- thing in the toolbar permanently visible, even if a webpage is at 100%. I find that the most logical place to use it. Firefox allows this. You see at a glance what it's set at, you can change it with one click. Total no-brainer.

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-20
soren

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-14
Arush Agarwal

i am bit worried about my data as this extension require "read and change data on sites" permission which i don't trust yet . and eve when i set to read data on specific site only ,it reading data on all sites.

★☆☆☆☆2022-11-02
Richard Lievesley

Broken. The addon says my zoom level is 140% but it's actually at 80% (reported by Chrome) The settings page is bad. The guide on how to use it is buried in the options, not laid out properly and the guide is incomplete. Default zoom on page does not support wildcards (Setting a separate zoom level for Youtube's homepage and Youtube's watch page is not possible). Error tips not clear. When it does work on subdomains it's really random when it will remember the zoom level or not. If you set it yourself in the settings, it's quite random if it will actually use that zoom level or not. Tried both " Zoom at domain level" and "Zoom at web page level" No luck, it's just not consistent to warrant enabling it. Plus sometimes it will recognize you made a change to your zoom-level in tab and remember it for you, other times it doesn't for no reason. No tips are displayed saying settings are saved or anything, you must either keep the settings page open and refresh it to check any changes, or just guess. Plus why is there a "Apply the zoom level to all pages" button that does nothing because the Default Zoom slider right above it does the same thing? Oh and the uninstall feedback page links to a missing page It's just too buggy to use it.

★☆☆☆☆2022-03-02
Shalini Mehta

very bad response

★☆☆☆☆2021-12-02
Marc Schweitzer

Unnecessairy click on three dots replaced with an unnecessairy click on a Z. Genius. And it doesn't even work properly.

★☆☆☆☆2021-11-11
Fixit Mann

Doesn't work, at all. No "Z" appears. Also no context menu entry. Went through options and tried it all. Nothing. Still have to zoom with ctrl+ and ctrl- or the inconvenient three dot menu, where there is now some square icon that makes the page go wonky by removing all title bars, menu bar, scrollbar, tabs, etc. (I guess that's "reader view? Useless)

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-13
Alex Wong

doesn't do anything

★☆☆☆☆2021-07-04
Sekrit Skworl - Sekrit_Studios

Does not seem to work within my Chrome Browser. PLEASE! ADD! "LOCK SCROLL" FEATURE! to stop the screen from accidentally zooming in and out with touchpad controllers... it is an infuriating waste of of time. And your app does not make scrolling better or worse aside from adding granular detail to a something that some of us don't want to begin with.

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-12
Jadeon Smith

it doesn't work lol we everyone be bot

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-09
abdikadar .m

trash dont get it people that like it are BOTS not working BIG TRASH NOT WORKING.

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-15
Peter Rundle

How did this 'suddenly' appear???? hate it

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-13
Ramesh Mathur

Didn't work on my Chromebook. Crashes every time I enter meeting code and password to launch the meeting.

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-12
Markus Donato

Wasted more then half of my battery And I only spent 52 minutes on it when I'm not on Zoom it tend's to take Up my battery alot did not use it for a week my battery is down to 15 percent.

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-12
Ketan Prakash

i doesn't need this extension because I have already a zoom function in my chrome

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-10
Andre Marcil

I am very disappointed about the latest update. It was working fine but now it doesn't keep a memory of the pages zoom level like it did before. Most pages are at 100% but I like to keep REDDIT at 140%. If I put any page at 100% all pages afterward are at 100% including REDDIT and if I change it to 140% on REDDIT all the other pages will be at 140%. I loved it before the update. I wish there was a way to not update stuff when they work well.

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-22
raul aguilar

trash

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-24
Dean Pittard

It *𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 technically work: the +/- (in)decreases the zoom by 10% each time and the slider adjusts in much small increments for fine-tuning. However, after hours of trying and testing from resetting all sites to default 100% zoom before installing the extension, making sure no other extensions were conflicting (in fact, I disabled all other extensions), and trying lots of different zoom amounts on different sites, as well as zooming with Chrome's built-in zoom function and then fine-tuning with this extension... but sadly nothing I did fixed the major problem that it just flat-out breaks the design, view, and/or functionality of most sites. 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀: • YouTube - above 120% zoom notifications are either slightly or completely cut-off as they appear outside of the screen/page borders. Also, 'Cinema Mode' is stretched so much it cuts off the edges of the video. And playback scrubbing is impossible because the site seems to register your cursor in a different place to where it actually is - (it's difficult to explain but if I was to click my cursor in the dead-center of the playback timeline the site would register the click much, much further to the right almost at the end of the video, if that makes sense) • Other examples - on any and every site that has pop-outs such as hovering over a linked/highlighted word causes the pop-out to appear outside the border of the visible page/screen. • On any and every site, spell check/Grammarly highlights an incorrect word but because the page is stretched it highlights in the wrong word or it highlights in a random place on the page making it near impossible to click the incorrect word as the page thinks your cursor is somewhere else. And lots more like this. It seems this extension just stretches the page which when breaks most pages' functionality. I just don't see how it's usable in any capacity. What a shame.

★☆☆☆☆2020-11-19
Kaki Ho (Kari cheung)

it doesn't work just use the bulit in zoom in on your pc and use a zoom in add on just use ctrl - or + and this an't working use the ctrl - + to zoom in and out even if you dont have this ad on

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-30
iitessMSP

is it just me or does it not even work when i click it i wanted to zoom into a picture to see what was in the backround and it doesnt even work 0/10 wouldnt recommend.

★☆☆☆☆2020-06-25
Sergey Ermolaev

Does not work

★☆☆☆☆2020-04-08
Mariah K.

This glitches way too much, Its getting really annoying. People can write all over the screen too. It allows students to write inappropriate names.

★☆☆☆☆2020-04-02
Ⅎaceᖘalm Theᗯoяld

wont shrink my homescreen.

★☆☆☆☆2019-09-21
Fluffy McFluff

Doesn't do anything. Tried on multiple websites with other extensions disabled. It literally did nothing. Clicking Hover+ just take you to Github - pointless

★☆☆☆☆2019-09-05
Gabriel

Doesn't work. After installation a monit opens requesting priviledges, but before I can click anything it switches tab and the monit is gone. Dude, seriously.

★☆☆☆☆2019-07-14
danameable

useless garbage you don't need an app to make a entire page bigger

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-22
just moguzz

sorry for low rating but i cant control this KULLLANAMIYOM

★☆☆☆☆2019-05-04
MaryLyn Williams

maybe its cause im wearing glasses but i saw no differance didnt even see the page move like it does when you zoom in or out i saw nothing! deleting.

★☆☆☆☆2019-02-23
Apple Dumpling

I do no recommend this extension, The only difference of this that I see is that the chrome ICON only shows if you change from 100% viewing. chrome won't jump 1 percent increments, and this extension doesn't either anymore.. I thought it did before.. To have settings on it set by click mouse buttons is ridiculous. If you want to zoom using your mouse, all you have to do, without.this extension is hold CTRL key down, and roll the mouse wheel either direction, zooming in/out the page. This extension is basically bloatware using up 20 Megs of ram that is not necessary.

★☆☆☆☆2019-01-16
Ralf Stephan

Did not zoom all page parts equally of https://tcec.chessdom.com/#/

★☆☆☆☆2018-11-11
Scott Pearce

it did not do 1% incremental zoom like expected, the slider was way to course to adjust and did not work to scale flash content at all

★☆☆☆☆2018-10-17
Mojtaba Vahdati

I just wanted a circle to hover on the page and zoom ONLY the things under that circle. Just like the way I use a magnifier. Otherwise I have CTRL+Plus/CTRL+Minus already!

★☆☆☆☆2018-08-11
Mike Sun

Not working. Useless

★☆☆☆☆2018-08-07
Rachel Evans

Again, just press the following keys to zoom in or out: [Alt]+[+] [Alt]+[-] This extension is useless and in my mind was created for another purpose - collect user data.

★☆☆☆☆2018-07-22

*don't work no more*

★☆☆☆☆2018-06-29
Shannon Love

This extension does nothing more than the built-in browser zoom. Cool but utterly useless.

★☆☆☆☆2018-05-05
tim thomas

Spam enabled app.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-02
Jiaqi Feng

The website is down, cant go into the option....why cant you just make it local...

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-07
Mark Schoenberg

Is complicated to us and erratic in its execution.

★☆☆☆☆2018-02-06
Ivan Yurchenko

Unfortunately it doesn't do what I want. The problem with both this extension and the default browser scaling is that sites get unreadable when you scale them to 150-200%. The extension doesn't solve the problem. I'd like to get something like in Safari.

★☆☆☆☆2018-01-21
Frank Mio

doesn't save zoomed in, doesn't zoom in automatically for saved resolutions like it says.

★☆☆☆☆2017-01-12
fuck google (menoobslayer)

extremely disappointed with this app. everytime i visit the web page i was trying to just get a customized zoom amount on, it re applies its set zoom amount to the amount its already applied.... 150 becomes 225 225 becomes 337....... ridiculous, not worth a download.

★☆☆☆☆2016-12-22

In chrome it only replicates what's already there; two-clicks: open one thing then click on the +/-. In Firefox the plus/minus buttons are directly on the toolbar for single clicking +/-

★☆☆☆☆2016-11-19
raman sharma

ctrl + += same function

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-27
Sharon Beaner

Almost immediately after installing this extension, the cursor became misaligned in Google apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides). Had to reset Chrome and disable all of my extensions to track this problem down. Wanted to love this. I may try it again later.

★☆☆☆☆2016-05-02
Frank van Diejen

Doesn't add any new funcionality to Chrome. This is already build in (CTR+ CTR- CTR0)

Permissions (7)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser system.display tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs unlimitedStorage webNavigation Can monitor navigation events

Details

Version 2.8.25
Updated Dec 29, 2025
Size 400KiB
First Seen Mar 28, 2026