Zoom for Google Chrome chrome extension

What is Zoom for Google Chrome?

Zoom for Google Chrome is a accessibility chrome extension. it's a free extension and is featured in Accessibility, it has 400,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.21 from 1,618 rated user, last update is 871 days ago.

What’s new in version 2.6.4.0?

                It helps you to zoom easily in and out a web page. Thanks to the slider and the zoom buttons. It's the number one and best magnifying browser extension to customize the zoom value of that web page.

Zoom is a lightweight and useful add-in designed to get a perfect zoom experience. And if you have a bad vision (eye problem), or Lazy eye, or amblyopia. You can improve your vision on the current website with the Zoom browser extension. Increase the zoom slider to choose your best zoom scale.

A few great features in this browser extension:
✔ Zoom with a slider
The best way to zoom perfectly in on a web page is to use a slider. You can change the zoom factor from 1 up to 400.

✔ Scroll and Zoom
When you click on the Z button and scroll up or down with your mouse. Zoom will automatically change LIVE that web page.

✔ Zoom all together In/Out
If you enable this option in the Zoom options page, it will zoom in/out on all the open web pages.

✔ Save website Zoom value
This saves automatically the current zoom value of this website. So when you come later back to that website, it restores zoom value since you left the site.
As a user, you can always set it back to default zoom, by clicking on the "Reset" button.

✔ Zoom Engine
You as a user can choose what zoom engine you want to use. You can use the default browser zoom engine or the CSS website style zoom. That's smoother and enjoyable.
Or you even can choose the "font-size" engine, this will increase or decrease only the text on that website.

✔ Manage all the Zoom for each website (domain and web page level)
In the options page, you can easily edit or remove the zoom value of that website.

✔ Option to display the Zoom value percent number in the Z button as a badge

✔ Option to display the right-click menu with the necessary zoom percentages

✔ Option to hold your mouse click and scroll to zoom in or out the current page

✔ Option to see the circle or square magnifying glass around your mouse cursor

✔ Set default zoom ratio and zoom step

✔ Video and the web
This is one of the important browser extension also to improve your video entertainment. It zooms in the web page but it increases also the size of the video player example on YouTube™ and HTML5 video. And you can use the most popular Turn Off the Lights extension to dims the part around the video player.

✔ An accessibility option to see a larger popup window

Project Information:
https://www.stefanvd.net/project/zoom/browser/

Required Permissions:
"contextMenus":
This to add all the Zoom percentage level in the web browser context menu.

"tabs":
This is needed for the following features: to show you the welcome and guide page, manage the zoom on all the open tabs, and to open the Options page.

"storage":
This to save the settings on your local computer, and to sync it to your web browser account.

"<all_urls>":
This to control the button on all websites that include http, https, ftp, and file.

Note: 
Windows: CTRL and + or CTRL and - 
Mac: ⌘ and + or CTRL and - 
Is doing the same action as in this browser extension. But this extension helps you to increase/decrease the zoom to a custom percentage in a better user experience.

<<< Option feature >>>
To protect your eyes at night and to get focus on the video player such as YouTube™. It's recommended to use and install the Turn Off the Lights for YouTube and Beyond
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn            

How to install Zoom for Google Chrome?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Zoom for Google Chrome

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Reviews of zoom for google chrome:

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Shekhar Kashyap March 14th, 2023

This extension, though great in serving its purpose, has a clear conflict with Google Sheets. If you work in Google Sheet and this extension is enabled, you will not be able to work properly. With this extension enabled, you cannot change the size of the columns as the draggin arrows become invisible. Except this shortcoming, this extension is really very good, specially if your task involved taking regualr screenshots.

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Blue November 13th, 2022

Needs option to set a web page with both zoom and font. At the moment, the choice is between css engin and font size only. Also, obviously, when Adding a web page to the list, it will have to save the context. Thank you.

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Richard Lievesley November 1st, 2022

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.

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