Inspect View as No Active Views in Chrome Extension

[Jenifer Rajendren]

Hi,

In a specific environment , inspect view of our chrome extension has no background page to inspect instead having "No Active Views" , what is the reason? 
Is it due to any security restriction?

[wOxxOm]

It means there's no background script and no open pages (views) or it's a bug in Chrome. In the former case, either your manifest.json doesn't properly declare the background script or it's a known bug in Chrome that causes the service worker to lose registration, in which case you can reinstall your extension.

[Oliver Dunk]

This can also happen if the extension is installed by enterprise policy, because the page filters out non-inspectable views and the default behaviour for enterprise extensions is to disable developer tools. You can check if this is the case at chrome://policy.

If it is, setting the developer tools policy option (`DeveloperToolsDisabled` I believe) to false explicitly restores these options.