Zoom setting not working
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I have the default zoom for all windows set at 70%, but not all windows are opening at 70%. For example, my search engine is DuckDuckGo. Whenever a DuckDuckGo window opens, it is at 80%, which causes text on the right to be cut off. On the other hand, my bank's web site always opens with a zoom setting of 60%, and I have to increase it to 70%. How can I fix this?
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@calebm Settings, Webpages, and disable:
Use Tab ZoomThen, each website will remember the last-used zoom level.
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But that's not working. If, each time I go to my bank's site, I find it at 60% zoom, and I then change it to 70% zoom, at what point does Vivaldi figure out that I want it at 70% zoom?
What is Tab Zoom?
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@calebm When you change it by zooming on the website, the new value will apply next time. The zoom levels for each site are saved at:
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@pesala said in Zoom setting not working:
When you change it by zooming on the website
-- what does that mean? "zooming on the website"?
There is a zoom slider at the bottom right, and I adjust that.
Actually, sometimes I use Ctrl - or Ctrl +
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@calebm Whether you use the zoom slider or the ± buttons, the zoom level is updated at once for the next visit.
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But it's not working for me. Let's say that I open a DuckDuckGo page and it is zoomed to 80%. Changing that to 70% doesn't make it open at 70% in the future. Perhaps the problem is that I have a lot of DuckDuckGo windows open at one time. I will have set most of them to 70%, but some may still be 80%. Perhaps that is why the feature isn't working properly.
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MOST of my windows are opening up with a zoom of 80%, even though I have indicated that 70% is the default zoom. This is getting very frustrating.
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@calebm Try closing all but one DDG tab, then change the zoom to what you want. If I zoom in/out on a YouTube tab, for example, every YouTube tab is zoomed by the same amount. That works across Windows as well as within the same window.
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This is the browser that supposedly has every feature you could want, but doesn't have a convenient way to reset the zoom for a particular kind of page. This is something that needs to be fixed.
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@calebm As far as I can tell it does have an easy way to reset the zoom level. If I zoom in or out on one DDG search result page, all the other DDG search results pages zoom to the same value.
I suspect that the pages that you have opened are not the same website. Maybe it is something to do with referral links, or there is some other cause. Provide two or three URLs for us to test.
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No, there's nothing easy about this. At any given time I have a couple hundred browser windows open, many of them will be DDG windows in which I did searches. I have now gone through them all and changed them all to 70% zoom. Now, despite doing that, when I open a new DDG window, it is zoomed to 80%. I'm staying with Vivaldi so far because most of the customizations work well, but not all of them. If the developers wanted to fix this, I'm sure they could.
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@calebm said in Zoom setting not working:
If the developers wanted to fix this, I'm sure they could.
The first step would be to provide a proper bug report with URLs so that the alleged bug can be tested and the cause diagnosed. No matter how much they want to fix an issue, if it cannot be reproduced, it cannot be fixed.
Are you really opening hundreds of windows or do you mean tabs? Are any windows Private Windows?
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I meant tabs.
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By the way, I won't be filling out a "proper bug report with URLs so that the alleged" yada yada yada. Intelligent developers would follow this forum and make adjustments to the program based on what the users say here.
I did at one time have the setting at 80% because the 80% zoom was working in another browser I was using. But when I saw that too much text was running off the right-hand side, I changed the setting to 70%. That was about a month ago, but my pages keep opening at 80% despite the fact that I am adjusting every page I open to 70%. The system isn't learning what I'm doing.
When a user changes the zoom setting, a well-designed browser would immediately adjust all pages to the new setting and THEN give the user the option of setting a custom zoom for a particular site.
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@calebm
Hi, then use this browser.Cheers, mib
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@calebm said in Zoom setting not working:
Intelligent developers would follow this forum and make adjustments to the program based on what the users say here.
Intelligent users would understand that they need to provide the requested information. Never mind 100 tabs, just open 3 tabs and try to reproduce the issue. If two tabs respond to the zoom control and one does not, what is different about the third tab? Are all three tabs from the same domain or not?
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But the problems I'm having aren't happening with just three tabs open. They are happening with hundreds of tabs open. Those are the real-world conditions. How Vivaldi behaves when there are three tabs open doesn't concern me.
I've got those tabs open for a reason. I'm in the middle of doing things. Yes, some of them can be closed, and periodically I close the tabs that don't need to stay open. But it's not my job to be Vivaldi's beta-tester. One gets the feeling that the people who are developing this program aren't really using it.
I'm having more issues with Vivaldi than just this, but I'll open another thread for those.
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@calebm Every time you use a zoom slider/buttons/shortcut on a certain website, it's being saved (for that domain) in
chrome://settings/content/zoomLevels
In order to avoid that, make sure that the following option in settings is checked:
Use Tab Zoom
It will preserve the custom zoom settings within a single tab, but it shouldn't affect other tabs with the same website.
Once you define Default Webpage Zoom in Settings, it should affect all websites. You can also adjust webpage zoom inchrome://settings/appearance, although it uses different levels - for example, there's 67% but no 70% option. Perhaps that's causing some interference in your case - it's hard to tell. I tried setting default zoom to 70% and it seems to work fine here. -
Pesala, in a previous post you told me to close all Vivaldi tabs except for one, and then the 70% zoom setting would kick in. Well, because of the crash I just experienced (see my other thread), I am doing just that -- and even though the zoom is set to 70%, ALL MY WINDOWS ARE OPENING WITH A ZOOM OF 80%. There is definitely something wrong with the program. I have had the zoom set to 70% for months now, but windows keep opening at 80% zoom.
Please don't tell me to file a bug report. I have things to do and can't do the developers' job for them. As I said before, they should be reading the posts in this forum every day to find out what improvements need to be made to the program.
