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I'm a normal-sighted person and I would like to view pages at 100% all the time. I use keyboard shortcuts that involve Ctrl a lot, so about twenty times a day I accidentally hit Ctrl at the same time that I'm scrolling, which results in the page being reflowed and repainted. This is annoying because it can take up to 30 seconds to fix the issue, depending on how complex the site layout is. On sites with dynamic layout such as Google Docs the problem is more serious; accidentally hitting Ctrl+mouse wheel corrupts the display and forces me to refresh the page entirely, sometimes causing me to loose information in the process.
I would like to either decouple Ctrl+mouse wheel from zoom, or disable zoom functionality altogether. This is possible on Firefox by using about:config; is there a similar way to edit detailed settings in Chrome? Would I have access to the detailed settings if I used Chromium instead of Chrome? I'll probably jump ship back to Firefox if I can't solve this problem.
There is a superuser question that asks basically the same thing I'm asking, but for Firefox and Internet Explorer exclusively. Other people on the Chrome forum have had related issues, but none have the same problem. "I would really like it if I could deactivate the auto zoom in/out." had "something with laptops and Windows 7", not the feature built into Chrome. Other people have had PDF specific issues, which doesn't concern me.
I've also tried searching for extensions that allow you to disable the scroll; I had hoped that "Zoom Lock" would have the ability to lock the zoom at 100% and prevent Ctrl+scroll wheel from distorting the display, but it doesn't work for my use case.
I am using Google Chrome (version 9.0.597.84 (Official Build 72991)) on Ubuntu 10.10.
This post came first - that's the duplicate :) – Cullub – 2015-01-06T20:21:13.313
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This is a bug in Chrome. Please star it.
– Dan Dascalescu – 2017-10-24T17:19:38.707@DanDascalescu also another bug report concerning the issue.
– jarno – 2019-07-11T10:01:29.213They claim they heave fixed the above mentioned bugs, but they still exist in my experience. – jarno – 2020-01-03T08:49:24.537
Yes, great question. I just about posted this myself. I'm getting tired of the exact same thing. Almost enough to stop using Chrome, which is a real shame. – Cody Gray – 2011-02-09T10:35:39.170
1Hum, I'm having the exact inverse problem: I would like to be able to zoom in or out using the scrollwhell. Did Chrome remove support for that? (I'm using Chrome for Mac) – julien_c – 2012-01-13T22:35:55.670
This is so annoying, Google is so not user friendly. – Registered User – 2012-07-05T19:06:04.373
@julien_c - what about command scroll, does that work for you? – Peter Nore – 2012-07-06T20:05:55.323
@PeterNore No unfortunately – julien_c – 2012-07-07T07:12:15.183
Updated duplicate (with a working solution): Lock/disable the zoom on Chrome Browser
– amiregelz – 2012-11-24T13:42:49.750