14 DAY TRIAL // Google developers have been quick to remedy a regression in Google Chrome that messed up with the way the zoom function worked. Only the Linux platform received this update, and it seems that none of the other supported OSes had this problem.
Numerous Linux users noticed that the previous Google Chrome update caused some serious problems with scaling, which could cause some issues with the fonts and the UI. The problem was pretty serious because the scaling issues couldn't be reverted. One of the temporary solutions was to add the --force-device-scale-factor=1 argument to the command line and solve it like that, but that's just a simple workaround.
Unlike other issues that have persisted for a long time in Google Chrome, this regression was fixed in just a few days. The Google devs issued a new version of the browser, and everything seems to have gone back to normal.
"Before this CL, we used either gtk-xft-dpi (UI fonts) or the physical DPI of a more or less random display. This CL consistently uses gtk-xft-dpi which is the better alternative: users can directly influence it (by changing the Xft.dpi X resource, or via their gtkrc)," is noted in the changelog.
You can download Google Chrome 43.0.2357.125 for Linux from Softpedia, or the Windows and Mac OS X versions from the same location.