Different #anchors treated as different sites about default-zoom HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @OJFord, thanks for the bug report!

Short answer

Per-site zoom levels are respected, with one exception: a zoom level of 100% is always overridden after you navigate or reload.

There's a limitation in the WebExtension API. Other add-ons solve that by storing its own database of per-site zoom level entries for every website you visit. This add-on avoids that by only zooming when the zoom of the current tab is 100%.

Long answer

Firefox stores site-specific zoom levels in a database. Unfortunately, the WebExtension API doesn't really let you read/manipulate this database or how zoom levels are added.

If you've set default-zoom to X%, when you navigate to a website the add-on will check the current zoom level and do this:

• If the current zoom is 100%, this is probably a new website. Change the zoom level to X%.
• If the current zoom is anything else (eg, X% or 150%) then it's site-specific. Do nothing.

Unfortunately, when the current zoom is 100%, there's not an easy way to tell if this is a new website or whether the user has intentionally set the zoom to 100% (like in your case).

Most of the other zoom add-ons solve that by creating their own database to store per-site zoom level entries for every website you visit (essentially duplicating the functionality that Firefox is already doing). That's a perfectly reasonable approach.

To keep this add-on minimal I went for a different approach, with the caveat that it's then no longer possible to save a site-specific zoom-level of 100%. This is an acceptable trade-off for users with HiDPI screens or accessibility needs where 100% is likely to always be too small (which are the main audience for this add-on). I readily admit it doesn't suit users like yourself that want a default of below 100%. Unfortunately, I don't know a good way of accommodating for your use-case without changing the minimalist approach to this add-on, so I can only suggest you explore some of the other zoom add-ons. Sorry!

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My default was 80%, and it was 90% I changed to that was not persisted.

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My default was 80%, and it was 90% I changed to that was not persisted.

In your original post, you used 100% as an example. It happens by design in the case of 100% (as described above). In the case of 90% or anything else, I don't think that should happen. I tried to reproduce as follows:

1. Set default to 80%
2. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
3. Change current zoom to 90%
4. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History
5. Zoom stays at 90%

If you're able to provide some steps to reproduce your issue then I'll gladly try to reproduce myself!

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