How to reset chrome inspector?

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Something is wrong with my Chrome inspector, I would like to reset the Chrome inspector to out of the box settings. How could I do ? (wihout removing my whole Chrome)

score 72 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 26 '19 at 08:25

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Open DevTools by pressing F12 or ctrl + shift + i
press F1 or click on ... on the top right corner beside cross to open settings
scroll at the bottom or to the right of screen and press [restore defaults and reload] button
Restart chrome

NOTE: relaunch chrome is very much necessary

done !

edited Mar 26 '19 at 08:25

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answered Feb 09 '17 at 11:59

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Note: this also resets _all_ of your Devtool preferences, including custom UA overrides, etc – Albert Xing Apr 27 '18 at 01:16
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It helped me, but I didn't have to restart chrome – valdeci Jul 28 '20 at 12:25
I didn't have to restart either. I guess things have likely come a long way since 2017. It's probably worth editing the answer. – mwfearnley May 14 '21 at 11:34
Clicking on ... doesn't work there is settings icon next to it. – Ajeet Eppakayala Feb 21 '22 at 13:42

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '14 at 15:17

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Find the following two files and delete them. These files contain the settings for the inspector.

chrome-devtools_devtools_0.localstorage
chrome-devtools_devtools_0.localstorage-journal

Please make sure to restart the Chrome again. Hope this helps.

answered Feb 20 '14 at 15:17

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Well, I'am trying it. Will see in 5 mins ! – Hugolpz Feb 20 '14 at 15:20
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what OS are you using? just curious. Also, see http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory – HackerKarma Feb 20 '14 at 15:24
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You can find the file locations by going to chrome://version/ and opening the profile folder noted there -- as shown in this answer: http://superuser.com/a/905304/10429 – Kimball Robinson Jan 25 '16 at 20:24
For Windows 8.1: the folder is: [UserFolder]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage – Giulio Molinari Mar 31 '16 at 16:11

score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 08 '17 at 09:45

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Looks like in today's Chrome, there is a "Restore defaults and reload" button under Developer Tools => Preferences, which will work.

edited Aug 08 '17 at 09:45

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Menu Item "Customize and Control DevTools" => Settings => Preferences or press F1 key while in DevTools – Steve Wasiura Nov 30 '16 at 17:47
This method doesn't work. Guess restart is the only way.. mine crashed when I ran an infinite `for of` loop – Pacerier Jun 20 '17 at 11:53

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 09 '14 at 05:05

On a Mac running 10.9.2:

 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local\ Storage

Or

~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome\ Canary/Default/Local\ Storage/

Remove

chrome-devtools_devtools_0.localstorage
chrome-devtools_devtools_0.localstorage-journal

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 05:36

Thought I needed to remove chrome dev tools on a windows 10 machine. I was debugging and looking at sources of files , bootstrap in particular and the developer tools locked up. I was looking through all the chrome user data but then I ended up fixing it by

Open up chrome by itself , then open dev tools and clear the console and then navigate to elements, then I opened the localhost page I was constantly getting frozen on and then it worked.

True it is not necessarily "fixed" but it beats spending hours with no reward.

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