Default options in Chrome dev tools

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inia...@gmail.com

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Dec 3, 2013, 5:54:55 AM12/3/13
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I would like to have some options turned on by default everytime I open an incognito window. 

For example, I would always want cache to be disabled, log XMLHTTPRequests, enable the Network panel etc. I find myself doing these repetitive things every time I open an incognito window for testing. Is there any way to automatically do this? 

Thanks!

Pavel Feldman

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Dec 3, 2013, 12:58:50 PM12/3/13
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Not as of today. Did you consider using a separate profile ("User" in Chrome settings) for clean room experience? That way you will have multiple environments for testing + persistence for each of them.

Pavel

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inia...@gmail.com

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Dec 3, 2013, 8:17:42 PM12/3/13
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Could you please elaborate on that? I usually open a new incognito window to clear everything and reset the environment? How can I achieve the same with multiple profiles?

Thanks!

On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 01:58:50 UTC+8, pfeldman wrote:

Not as of today. Did you consider using a separate profile ("User" in Chrome settings) for clean room experience? That way you will have multiple environments for testing + persistence for each of them.

Pavel

On Dec 3, 2013 2:54 PM, <inia...@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to have some options turned on by default everytime I open an incognito window. 

For example, I would always want cache to be disabled, log XMLHTTPRequests, enable the Network panel etc. I find myself doing these repetitive things every time I open an incognito window for testing. Is there any way to automatically do this? 

Thanks!

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Yaw Boakye

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Dec 4, 2013, 3:48:52 AM12/4/13
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Note: It's not as easy and fast as using incognito because the throwaway of all data would mean deleting and creating a new profile every time you want to have the incognito experience. This is how it works:

Create a new profile
Launch Chrome with that profile
Do your thing
Delete the profile afterwards


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Pavel Feldman

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Dec 4, 2013, 4:54:43 AM12/4/13
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I use different users for different environment settings (workspace folders, cookies for logged in experience, etc.). As I understand you are more interested in the first user experience, i.e. blank profile? What are the parts of clean room experience that are important to you? I can imagine cache and cookies, anything else? For those, there are context menu items that are clearing those in the Network panel. We can also surface them as a single "reset my caches" button somewhere in devtools ui. At least we were considering that.

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Pavel


inia...@gmail.com

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Dec 7, 2013, 9:52:37 PM12/7/13
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I find it annoying that the network panel is not enabled by default. I am debugging scripts in the scripts panel only to find out that no requests have been captured in the network panel and I have to start all over again. 
I also reset all caches usually, enable logging on XMLHttpRequests and break on uncaught exceptions. 
Every time I open an incognito window, I have find myself doing these same steps before I can actually start debugging.

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inia...@gmail.com

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Yes it seems a bit more of an hassle than just opening an incognito window. 
Thanks for explaining the workaround with profiles anyway!

On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 4:48:52 PM UTC+8, Yaw Boakye wrote:
Note: It's not as easy and fast as using incognito because the throwaway of all data would mean deleting and creating a new profile every time you want to have the incognito experience. This is how it works:

Create a new profile
Launch Chrome with that profile
Do your thing
Delete the profile afterwards
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:17 AM, <inia...@gmail.com> wrote:
Could you please elaborate on that? I usually open a new incognito window to clear everything and reset the environment? How can I achieve the same with multiple profiles?

Thanks!

On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 01:58:50 UTC+8, pfeldman wrote:

Not as of today. Did you consider using a separate profile ("User" in Chrome settings) for clean room experience? That way you will have multiple environments for testing + persistence for each of them.

Pavel

On Dec 3, 2013 2:54 PM, <inia...@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to have some options turned on by default everytime I open an incognito window. 

For example, I would always want cache to be disabled, log XMLHTTPRequests, enable the Network panel etc. I find myself doing these repetitive things every time I open an incognito window for testing. Is there any way to automatically do this? 

Thanks!

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