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fix(web): browser preview viewport no longer scales with window zoom - #14281

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If T3 Code is zoomed in or out (View > Zoom, Ctrl+= / Ctrl+-), the Browser panel gives pages the wrong viewport. Ask for 519×762 at 120% and the page gets 623×915. Now the page gets exactly the size that was asked for, at any app zoom.

Why

Agents can't size or screenshot the Browser panel while the app is zoomed.

  • preview_resize times out. It waits for the page to reach the requested size, which never happens, so the agent gets "Preview viewport … was not rendered within …ms" and the viewport rolls back.
  • Screenshots come back at the wrong width. A page asked to be 519 wide lays out at 623, often past a different CSS breakpoint, so the agent is looking at a layout nobody asked for.
  • The agent has no way to tell that the app's zoom is the cause. Pressing Ctrl+0 fixes it, but only the user can do that.

Measured in the dev desktop app: the page's innerWidth × innerHeight with a fixed 519×762 viewport, while stepping the real View menu zoom.

App zoom Before After
100% 519×763 519×763
120% 623×915 (resize times out) 519×763
83% 433×636 (resize times out) 519×763

The 763 at 100% happens on main too. It's a 1px rounding that the readiness check already allows.

What Changed

Fixed viewports (device toolbar, presets, preview_resize) now always give the page exactly the requested size, whatever the app zoom. App zoom still leaves the previewed page's own zoom alone, as #6649 intended, and the Browser panel's own zoom control works as before.

UI Changes

None at 100% app zoom. When the app is zoomed, the page keeps its requested size. If it no longer fits the panel, it scales down to fit like any oversized viewport. The change is in the page's pixel dimensions rather than anything a screenshot of the panel would show, so the table above is the before/after.

Checklist

  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes (before/after measurements; no visual change at 100% zoom)
  • I included a video for animation/interaction changes (not applicable)

How it broke

Two earlier PRs stopped agreeing:

OS display scaling is not involved: it scales the app and the page equally.

Implementation

Start with apps/web/src/browser/usePreviewPageScale.ts and its test. They hold the whole idea: page scale = tab zoom ÷ app zoom. The rest of the diff swaps that value in where the raw tab zoom was used.

  • DesktopBridge.getZoomFactor exposes the window's webFrame zoom. It's optional like its sibling bridge methods.
  • usePreviewPageScale re-reads the app zoom on resize, since a zoom step always changes the window's CSS viewport. The preload already tracks the macOS window-controls inset the same way.
  • The page scale replaces the raw tab zoom everywhere page pixels map to panel pixels: the hosted webview (layout and resize rails), the responsive device-toolbar default, the agent cursor, and the floating mini player.
  • The zoom label and zoom menu still show the tab's own zoom.

Not changed:

  • Viewports stay sized through the element, as Route preview automation through live owner streams #3548 designed. Driving the size through CDP device emulation would still need this conversion to show the page in the panel, so it would be a redesign rather than a fix.
  • Screenshots of a viewport bigger than the panel are still captured at reduced sharpness. That's a separate issue.

Testing

  • vp test run src/components/preview src/browser in apps/web (332 passing). The new usePreviewPageScale.test.ts covers zoomed in, zoomed out, tab zoom stacking and invalid zoom values.
  • Typecheck for packages/contracts, apps/web, apps/desktop. No new lint warnings.
  • Manual check in the dev desktop app, as in the table above. Fill mode and dragging the resize rails while zoomed use the same corrected scale and are covered by the unit tests, but I didn't check them by hand.

Only tested on Linux (Omarchy / Hyprland, Wayland). Not tested on macOS or Windows. The zoom factor comes from Electron's webFrame, which behaves the same on every platform, but I haven't run it there.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Preview content now accounts for the app window’s zoom level, keeping page sizing and cursor positioning consistent across zoom settings.

Agents can't size or screenshot the Browser panel when the app window is
zoomed. At 120% View > Zoom, preview_resize to 519x762 renders the page at
623x915, so it times out ("viewport ... was not rendered") and rolls back,
and screenshots show the page at the wrong width.

The panel sized the webview in app CSS pixels, so window zoom leaked into
the page's viewport. The desktop bridge now reports the window's zoom
factor, and the panel, device toolbar, agent cursor and floating mini
player divide it out. Pages get exactly the viewport that was asked for.
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Verdict: Approved at c32d81c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused browser-preview bug fix that compensates for app-window zoom while preserving the preview tab’s own zoom behavior. The new scale calculation is localized, backward-compatible for web and older desktop bridges, and covered by targeted tests.

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The desktop bridge now exposes the app-window zoom factor. A new hook tracks that factor and computes normalized page scale. Browser preview sizing, layout, and cursor zoom use the normalized scale.

Changes

Preview page-scale normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expose and compute page scale
packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts, apps/desktop/src/preload.ts, apps/web/src/browser/usePreviewPageScale.ts, apps/web/src/browser/usePreviewPageScale.test.ts
The desktop bridge exposes the window zoom factor. The hook tracks window resize events and divides tab zoom by the normalized window zoom factor. Tests cover freeform dimensions, tab zoom, and invalid window zoom values.
Apply page scale to preview surfaces
apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.tsx, apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer.tsx
Hosted browser layout, viewport resizing, device-toolbar sizing, cursor zoom, and mini-player source sizing use normalized page scale.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Window
  participant usePreviewPageScale
  participant desktopBridge
  participant PreviewView
  participant HostedBrowserWebview
  participant BrowserMiniPlayer
  Window->>usePreviewPageScale: resize event
  usePreviewPageScale->>desktopBridge: read window zoom factor
  desktopBridge-->>usePreviewPageScale: return window zoom factor
  usePreviewPageScale-->>PreviewView: return normalized page scale
  usePreviewPageScale-->>HostedBrowserWebview: return normalized page scale
  usePreviewPageScale-->>BrowserMiniPlayer: return normalized page scale
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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c32d8

No concrete production failure is established. Add hook-level coverage for the zoom-update path as a follow-up; the current tests only verify the scale calculation.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c32d8

The new zoom method reads a window setting; the reviewed wiring does not give previewed pages new desktop capabilities. Preview sizing depends on receiving zoom updates, however, and that behavior has not been established for every supported environment.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Preview scale updates rely on renderer resize events after desktop zoom changes. Delivery across supported environments is unverified; a missed update could leave an agent resize waiting for dimensions that never render, then invoke its guarded rollback.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The newly available host value affects preview sizing and agent resize readiness for desktop users, not the guest's desktop privileges. A missed update could affect preview operations until scale is refreshed; no broader asset or service exposure was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Attacker-controlled preview content remains on the guest webview side of the preload boundary: the inspected guest uses its preview preload, while getZoomFactor is implemented in the host preload. The change therefore does not establish a guest-to-desktop authority path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Resize completion measures the guest rather than trusting the requested size, and timeout rollback checks current ownership before restoring the previous setting.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix: preventing browser preview viewports from scaling with application zoom.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required What Changed, Why, UI Changes, Checklist, and testing details. It explains the problem, implementation, validation, and platform limitations. The unchecked video …
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13-37: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The added tests do not cover usePreviewPageScale.

The tests call previewPageScale directly. They do not render the hook, provide its desktop zoom accessor, or trigger the renderer resize subscription. Therefore, they cannot detect a regression where an app-zoom change fails to update the preview scale.

Add a hook-level test that changes the desktop zoom value, triggers the subscribed resize callback, and asserts the returned scale changes.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/browser/usePreviewPageScale.test.ts around lines
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Add a hook-level test for usePreviewPageScale that provides a desktop zoom
accessor, changes its value, triggers the renderer resize subscription callback,
and asserts the returned preview scale updates. Keep the existing
previewPageScale unit tests intact.

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Review comments at @apps/web/src/browser/usePreviewPageScale.test.ts:
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a desktop zoom accessor, changes its value, triggers the renderer resize
subscription callback, and asserts the returned preview scale updates. Keep the
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  • apps/web/src/browser/usePreviewPageScale.ts
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Closing as a duplicate of #14039. I've shared the verified test-setup fix, zoom-update coverage suggestion, and additional desktop measurements there.

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