Chrome has gone too large after update ubuntu 14.04 ..?

Question

Chrome has gone large in all senses - the whole window, tabs, font. See the picture below.

I tried this following suggestion on this post, but not luck fixing it.

All I did is this:

- gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Sans 11'
- google-chrome
- gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Sans 13'

Here is my return to google-chrom --version Google Chrome 43.0.2357.124

Answer 1

For me the following worked:

google-chrome --high-dpi-support=1 --force-device-scale-factor=1

make sure you kill all running instances of google chrome, otherwise it will just open another (broken) window ignoring the command line parameters

Answer 2

solution is to add flag --force-device-scale-factor in the file /usr/bin/chromium-browser or in /usr/bin/google-chrome

For solving error in chromium browser, I added the following line

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --force-device-scale-factor=1"

after the CHROMIUM_FLAGS definition in the script "/usr/bin/chromium-browser", ( for me it was line 185 )

for /usr/bin/google-chrome you should add the same parameter but in other way, ( sorry on my side the bug was only on chromium )

Answer 3

I just ran an update and the problem resolved as part of the update.

Version 43.0.2357.125 (64-bit)

Update Chrome.

Answer 4

I tried the

$CHROMIUM="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --force-device-scale-factor=1"

modification, however it did not work. Instead, I used @fetteelke's suggestion, and just ran the following commands:

cd /usr/bin
sudo echo '#! /bin/bash' | tee /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome-hack
sudo echo '/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome  --high-dpi-support=1 --force-device-scale-factor=1' >> /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome-hack
sudo chmod 755 /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome-rtisma-hack
sudo mv  google-chrome-stable  google-chrome-stable.backup
sudo ln -s /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome-hack  google-chrome-stable

and now everything is working fine. I am using the latest Ubuntu release.