In my Chrome browser on one computer, the Developer Tools are zoomed to a larger font size, and I can't (permanently) set it back to normal!
After opening a fresh instance of the browser and going to a normal page (eg. Google home page), the browser looks fine. However, when I open the Developer Tools panel, that panel is zoomed in so that the font is large. I can click into the panel and press ctrl0 to return it to a normal size. But when I close and reopen Chrome, it is back to the zoomed size again. This has been a problem for a few months, over multiple versions.
How can I permanently set the zoom in the Developer Tools panel back to normal?
Chrome Version: 23.0.1271.22 beta-m
OS: Windows 7, 64bit
Edit:
I've found that using ctrl+ and ctrl- seem to be effective between sessions, but NOT when it is first opened. So, I'm currently at a +2 zoom when I open the Developer Tools. If I press ctrl+ once, I go to +3. If I then restart the browser, my Developer Tools appears again at +2, but pressing ctrl+ puts me to +4. Similarly, if I presss ctrl- twice, I see it at 0 zoom. When I reopen the browser, it shows as +2 zoom again, but pressing ctrl+ once takes me to +1 (since it somehow thinks it is at 0 zoom). Confusing!
Best Answer
The following worked for me:
Close all Chrome windows
Edit the
Preferences
file in your Google Chrome profile.On Linux this is
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences
; on Windows it will be inC:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
(or possiblyC:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
))Locate the setting
"per_host_zoom_levels"
Remove the line that starts with
"devtools"
. This was set to -1 in my profile (my inspector was zoomed out by default).