How do I re-enable zoom on mobile websites that disable it?











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Many mobile-optimized websites disable zooming using the viewport meta tag. I'd like a way to re-enable zooming on such sites.










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          In lieu of a better solution, I wrote a bookmarklet to re-enable zooming.

          It seems to work in the Android Browser at least.



          javascript: document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]').content = 'width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=3.0; user-scalable=1;'; void(0);





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            In lieu of a better solution, I wrote a bookmarklet to re-enable zooming.

            It seems to work in the Android Browser at least.



            javascript: document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]').content = 'width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=3.0; user-scalable=1;'; void(0);





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              In lieu of a better solution, I wrote a bookmarklet to re-enable zooming.

              It seems to work in the Android Browser at least.



              javascript: document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]').content = 'width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=3.0; user-scalable=1;'; void(0);





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                In lieu of a better solution, I wrote a bookmarklet to re-enable zooming.

                It seems to work in the Android Browser at least.



                javascript: document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]').content = 'width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=3.0; user-scalable=1;'; void(0);





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                In lieu of a better solution, I wrote a bookmarklet to re-enable zooming.

                It seems to work in the Android Browser at least.



                javascript: document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]').content = 'width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=3.0; user-scalable=1;'; void(0);






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