Lock/disable the zoom on Chrome Browser

Question

Is there a way to disable/lock the mouse/touchpad zoom in the Chrome browser? I find myself accidentally triggering ctrl-wheel or touchpad-two-finger far more often than do intentionally.

As an afterwards bandaid fix, Ctrl-0 will quickly restore zoom to 100%.

Solution 1

For a quick and dirty solution I found @ http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/discuss-chrome/-rtDLZmN9bk

Followed rd2020's comment for AutoHotkey (as I am already running it for other things)

Downloaded AutoHotKey software In the AutoHotkey.ahk file, added these to do nothing for Cntrl+MouseWheelScrolling

#IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1
{
    ^WheelDown::return 
    ^WheelUp::return
    #MaxHotkeysPerInterval 1000
}

Solution 2

There is an extension that can prevent it.

Just make sure to

NoMouseWheelZoom

Installation Instructions
1. Install the extension
2. Go to extension settings. Make sure that "allow access to file url's" is checked
3. Refresh Your tabs

Comments

[Admin]

This is a bug in Chrome. Please star it.

[Admin]

--disable-pinch works for pinch-zooms, but does not fix ctrl-wheel resizing. (See stackoverflow.com/questions/22999829/…)

[Wulf Solter]

Thanks for googling it, but Zoom Lock does NOT lock the zoom to a set level, it allows you to predetermine zoom levels for your favourite sites. Nor does disabling the shortcut with Shortcut Manager. Disabling pinchzoom for the whole system is a "workaround", not a solution, and eliminates a core functionality that is very useful in many other scenarios.

[Thalys]

how/where would you put that? As a userscript or through something else?

[Wulf Solter]

That does work, but it's for the wrong problem ;) After a way to lock browser zoom on all sites

[Danny]

Any way to make this work on any browser (desktop or mobile)?

[Wulf Solter]

NoMouseWheelZoom currently (end 2016) does not work.

[Nelson]

This solution still works in 2017.

[Peter DeWeese]

The content of viewport should be comma delimited.

[Venryx]

@WulfSolter Here is an alternative extension "Zoom Block", which actually does prevent zoom modifications (until re-enabled for a specific tab): chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-block/…

[Mithril]

Note, use administrator authority to run this AHK ,or it would not take effect .