I often have many (many!) browser tabs open in Chrome. Often times I'll have a developer tools window open but lose track of the associated browser tab.
Is there a keyboard shortcut or menu or button somewhere that will bring the associated tab (and browser window) to the forefront?
UPDATE: Just noticed that the shortcut key is F12. It's listed against a "Focus debuggee" menu option under the vertical ellipsis. (Chrome 66.)
Original answer:
I was just looking for a similar shortcut.
I haven't found one, but if you go to the console in your developer tools window and run a quick
window.alert()
then it looks like the associated main window+tab is brought to the front to display the popup, and it remains there when the popup is dismissed.
(That's what I'm seeing as of Chrome 60.)
In devtools click the top right cogwheel to open Settings
Click Shortcuts in the left navigation menu, and scroll down until you see Focus debugee. You'll see the shortcut key that is assigned with an option to modify it, or an option to set the shortcut if not defined.
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I always use different windows of Chrome during development, and for each window I have to open a devtool window as well.
Every time I have to navigate between those windows, or I have to switch between IDE and devtool, I have to click on the right minimized devtool, and sometimes it's quite difficult because they have the same title.
I know, I could press F12 again on the window I need to maximize the right devtool, or I can maximize once the right one, and then switch between IDE and the devtool with Alt+Tab.
I could use also JavaScript to change the title, but it would last just until the next reload.
I think that give a specific name to the devtool window would speed up my work. In this way, I could identify immediately which devtool I need. For example I could rename a window "mobile" and the second one "desktop".
There is any way to do it?
There's no such feature so you can request it on https://crbug.com.
Meanwhile here's a workaround:
open devtools-on-devtools
run this console command in its window:
document.title = 'whatever'
save this command in devtools snippets to quickly re-run it later.
How to open devtools-on-devtools:
Open devtools first and switch its Dock side in the menu to a detached (floating) window
in the now detached devtools press CtrlShifti or ⌘⌥i on MacOS,
which will open devtools-on-devtools in a new window
I would love it if there was a hotkey, or some other method I could use to avoid having to use the mouse to constantly re-open this window whenever I redeploy my app.
Alternatively, is there a way of re-using an opened device inspector window that I'm unaware of?
chrome://inspect URL can be a good option.
But, what IS chrome://inspect? Well that's a global development tools page. It opens on the "Devices" tab by default, so that's handy.
I searched for a keyboard shortcut, but sadly I didn't discover any.
You could bookmark chrome://inspect and put a shortcut on your desktop by the way (except for Chromebooks, which is what I wrote my answer with)
From there, you can jump to inspection of any open page in your Chrome browser, which is nice too.
Alternative: When undocked, the Inspector will have the Console in the bottom. Well on the bar above the console, the leftmost three-dot menu has a direct "Devices Inspector" option.
I use os x and use Cmd+Opt+I Hotkeys to open Inspector in chrome.
You can find more hotkeys here
Hope this helps
Thanks
I'm trying to debug a Chrome Extension but every time I refresh it, the developer tools window that is associated with the extension closes. Does anyone know if there is a way to keep it open?
Here's what I'm doing: I click the extension button, which opens a popup window. I then right click it and click "Inspect". That opens the Developer Tools. Now if I click the extension button again to refresh it (when I update code), the Developer Tools closes. :(
There are two ways to accomplish this.
Click on the Dev Tools popup so the window is focused and then press F5. This will reload the popup and Dev Tools, and will not cause the Dev Tools window to close.
If that doesn't work for you, go to chrome-extension://extensionid/path/to/popup.html on a separate tab on Chrome. From there, you can inspect element, and refreshing the file will not cause Dev Tools to close.
Dev Tools are closing because hosted page is closing (the popup). The view and it's logic stops working if you close the popup so there's nothing to inspect.
If you'd like to debug background page it will not close with the popup since it is running in background. That's all you can do.
I frequently use the overrides tab in Chrome Developer tools to emulate other device such IPhone and IPad, but after upgrading to last version (32.0.1700.76 m) everything in the overrides tab is gone and replaced by a checkbox saying "Show 'Emulation' view in console drawer".
Checking this checkbox does not enable a 'Emulation' view in the Console drawer. The "Show Console" button seems to be disabled.
See here for more information.
Before starting open the dev tools console (on a Mac cmd-option-i)
Open the Settings panel within the dev tools console (click gear icon on right side)
Check "Show 'Emulation' view in console drawer (looks like you have already done this step) and close screen
Switch to the sources tab of the dev tools console
Press Esc to bring up a screen that slides in from the bottom
Select the Emulation tab on that second screen
There is also a note in the link above stating:
Note: Emulation tools within DevTools were previously contained within
an Overrides pane inside the Settings panel. The Emulation panel is
the new Overrides pane.
After installing Chrome (or the bleeding edge version Chrome Canary) you should be able to do proper mobile emulation within Chrome's Developer Tools. I usually activate them by Right Clicking > Inspect Element
For visual learners like myself, I just included a full screenshot.
I'm running Google Chrome version 58.0.3029.110, where the Emulation is no longer available, but all of the features are still available:
Device & Screen
Press Ctl + shift + m or click on Toggle device toolbar, you'll find these in the upper middle of your browser tab. (You'll find more options in the More option section.)
User Agent & Sensors
User Agent is now renamed as Network Conditions and can be found in the Customise and control DevTools > More tools > Network conditions. Sensors can also be found in the same location (ie. Customise and control DevTools > More tools > Sensors).
"Show Emulation view in console drawer" message confusing.
Generally our chrome dev tool bar tab selected as a console tab or we try to find out in console tab.
Problem is , Console drawer will not opened when your console tab selected.
I seem to have solved it. When I upgraded to Chrome Canary (Version 34.0.1789.0 canary) the problem was solved.
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html
I run into this problem, and it took me a while to figure it out, despite the answers here. I am on Version 37.0.2062.103 m. First, in this version, there is no Override pane, neither "Show 'Emulation' view in console drawer either. It is turned on by default (I guess), but a little bit hidden. The key is to first press ESC key in dev mode (now I'm not sure if it's on by default). You should see a pane with 4 "tabs" including "Emulation" at the bottom. I quoted tabs because it appeared more like a status bar to me and I keep clicking it and nothing happens, until I accidentally resized the pane.
Sweet... This behaviour (running device emulation and debug mode) works in Chromium on Linux Ubuntu by hitting F12 and then the drawer icon. :)
More info:
Some more info, including screenshots
Is there a way to view multiple Chrome devtools panels at the same time? A split window, like this mockup, would be nice:
Or in separate windows.
It would be extremely useful to be able to view the Sources panel and Network panel at the same time, to see exactly when network requests are fired while stepping through code.
The console can be pulled up while inside any other panel by clicking or pressing esc, so why not the other panels?
I haven't found much by searching, but maybe this is possible with a devtools extension.
Does this exist already? If not, is it possible?
I find this limitation frustrating too, all those other monitors are wasted! Here is poor man's solution:
launch your chrome with --remote-debugging-port=9999 command line parameter
right click on your page to debug and select 'Inspect Element' - this is your debug window #1
open a separate chrome window and navigate to chrome://inspect
click 'Configure...' and add localhost:9999
within a couple of seconds under 'Remote Targets' you should see tabs you can inspect from your other chrome instance
click on the tab, and now this is your debug window #2
Unrelated tip: system wide nightmode experience: http://danielsokolowski.blogspot.com/2018/11/windows-10-8-7-night-mode.html
As of Chrome Canary 33.0.1732.0, there's a "Show editor in Drawer" experiment. The editor shows up whenever you hit any anchor to the source code in DevTools.