Show / Hide icons in toolbar?

[patri...@gmail.com]

I have accidentally hidden the icons (Elements, Resources, network, etc) in the toolbar. is there a way to show them again?

[Tim Statler]

They are hidden by default in Chrome 25, which was pushed out yesterday. You can re-enable them checking the 'Show Toolbar Icons' in option in DevTools settings > General.

Tim 

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:33 AM, <patri...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have accidentally hidden the icons (Elements, Resources, network, etc) in the toolbar. is there a way to show them again?

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[bigt...@gmail.com]

Is there a way to make this the default?

The icons have been disappearing after I enabled them in a way that I haven't noticed a pattern yet.

Thanks!

On Friday, February 22, 2013 11:44:31 AM UTC-8, Tim Statler wrote:

They are hidden by default in Chrome 25, which was pushed out yesterday. You can re-enable them checking the 'Show Toolbar Icons' in option in DevTools settings > General.

Tim 

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:33 AM, <patri...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have accidentally hidden the icons (Elements, Resources, network, etc) in the toolbar. is there a way to show them again?

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[PhistucK]

Just a thought - perhaps they disappear when opening the Developer Tools for an incognito tab?

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[citize...@gmail.com]

Same question, there doesn't seem to be a way to make this the default? Without the icons, it's harder to tab back and forth through them, and it's useful to keep that preference every time you spawn a new dev-tools instance.

[John J Barton]

Just open the Devtools settings and click the box Show toolbar icons, 

Appearance

Show toolbar icons

Like all settings these are saved.

jjb

 

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[Milton Lawson]

That preference isn't saving for me in Chrome Version 25.0.1364.152 m

Once I close dev tools, or open a new tab, and spawn a new instance of dev tools, it reverts back to a default of not having icons.

[John J Barton]

Is this your issue:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=171335

?

jjb

[Milton Lawson]

No, I'm not using incognito mode.

I just updated to Version 25.0.1364.172 m

Problem still persists. I go into developer tools, no icons. Click settings, click "show toolbar icons" and then the icons appear for that one instance of Developer tools. Close the tools, spawn a new instance, no icons.

[John J Barton]

Do other settings also fail in this same way? 

jjb

[Milton Lawson]

Yes, actually. Didn't realize that. I just changed sources "show folders" setting and then spawned a new instance, and that preference was lost as well.

[John J Barton]

Open devtools on a page, then open devtools on devtools ((cntrl+shift+I or cmd+shift+I). In the second devtools search globally (cntl+shift+F) for 

   window.localStorage

Be patient the devtools front end is a large concatentated file.  You are looking for a line:

if (window.localStorage != null) {

in a method 'set' of 'Setting'

Set a breakpoint then go back to the first devtools, open Settings and set the show icons setting. See if the set() function seems to succeed.

Or/And: run your chrome browser from the command line with a new profile: 

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/creating-and-using-profiles

My guess is that your profile is somehow not writable.

jjb

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SHOW ICONS

[sunnyd...@gmail.com]

On Friday, February 22, 2013 8:33:36 PM UTC+1, Patrick Stinson wrote:

I have accidentally hidden the toolbar menu in chrome .i am not sure what i did the last as it happened

 

[sunnyd...@gmail.com]

where I will find dev tool bar option to re enable my tool bar  in chromes

[sunnyd...@gmail.com]

On Friday, February 22, 2013 8:33:36 PM UTC+1, Patrick Stinson wrote:

[PhistucK]

1. Go to chrome://extensions (copy and paste in the location bar).

2. Search for the relevant extension.

3. Click on "Show button".

☆PhistucK

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:55 AM, <sunnyd...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, February 22, 2013 8:33:36 PM UTC+1, Patrick Stinson wrote:

I have accidentally hidden the icons (Elements, Resources, network, etc) in the toolbar. is there a way to show them again?

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[rhig...@gmail.com]

I would like to see the icons too, but I don't see the DevTools setting icon.

[PhistucK]

When the focus is on the Developer Tools window (but not on its console!), press ?.

☆PhistucK

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[John J Barton]

My post that you quote is out-of-date. At this time, no such setting exists.

jjb

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[unter...@gmail.com]

Yes, i agree.

The setting was removed during the last Chrome Update (30 i think).

I opened an issue, please comment ;-)

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=307359

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[John J Barton]

My comment is: try devtools without icons for a bit. The old icons were a mess. Icons really help when you have many items in arbitrary order, we have few items in fixed order. Requiring icons for panels puts an unnecessary burden on extensions.

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[sa...@playgroundinc.com]

Whether they were a mess or not is completely irrelevant. 

Icons are good UX. They are functional. You memorize things based not only on order, but on things like color, texture, shape, value, volume. This is how humans work at the fundamental level. 

Removing them is a shockingly naive UI 'improvement'. 

[jme...@linkedsc.com.ar]

I totally agree! I've been using dev tools from years now and I've noticed instantly the missing icons, because of the time wasted to read which tabs I'm looking for. Icons are always functional, even with a few elements, beside that they look a lot better from a design point of view.

I can understand adding an option to hide them, I can understand icons hidden to be the default, but with all that already done, simply remove them now and remove the option of bring them back... It's at least a regression (to not say stupid).

Why wasting developers time to removing features that are working ok?, I mean, not fixing it, not improving it, simply removing it...

Sorry for my english.

[PhistucK]

Note - Patrick was referring to the toolbar of the Developer Tools feature and not to the toolbar of the browser, so this is unrelated to extensions.

☆PhistucK

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:48 AM, ziakliamse <esmai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Using Google Chrome version 36.0.1985.125 m

1. Go to chrome://extensions

2. Under the information of the extension you want to add the button for, click "Show Button." If this does not appear, you may have an extension that does not have a button, or you do not have enough space on your toolbar and the extension-button section needs to be extended (put your cursor between the left-most extension button. and the search box. It should turn into a 2-way arrow. Pull towards the left).

On Friday, February 22, 2013 11:33:36 AM UTC-8, Patrick Stinson wrote:

I have accidentally hidden the icons (Elements, Resources, network, etc) in the toolbar. is there a way to show them again?

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[dai...@gmail.com]

Where's DevTools settings > General. in 40.0.2214.111? There's no option labelled DevTools.

[PhistucK]

In the Developer Tools feature, there is a button with a cog wheel icon. Click on it and the settings screen will appear.

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[dai...@gmail.com]

Thank you, I've found the settings. The odd thing is that my Chrome 40.0.2214.111 (64-bit) is showing the Extension icons today though no change to the settings has been made lately. 

On Sunday, 8 February 2015 02:34:27 UTC+9, PhistucK wrote:

In the Developer Tools feature, there is a button with a cog wheel icon. Click on it and the settings screen will appear.

☆PhistucK

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:33 AM, <dai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Where's DevTools settings > General. in 40.0.2214.111? There's no option labelled DevTools.

On Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:33:36 UTC+9, Patrick Stinson wrote:

I have accidentally hidden the icons (Elements, Resources, network, etc) in the toolbar. is there a way to show them again?

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[onepu...@gmail.com]

You know it's really stupid to get a so-called "upgrade" only to lose icons.  Why in the world would someone devise an upgrade that makes things more confusing.  Just like these cockeyed geeks.