How to reset chrome inspector?

Question

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)

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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

NOTE: relaunch chrome is very much necessary

done !

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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

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Comments

[Hugolpz]

Well, I'am trying it. Will see in 5 mins !

[HackerKarma]

what OS are you using? just curious. Also, see chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory

[Kimball Robinson]

You can find the file locations by going to chrome://version/ and opening the profile folder noted there -- as shown in this answer: superuser.com/a/905304/10429

[Giulio Molinari]

For Windows 8.1: the folder is: [UserFolder]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Storage

[Steve Wasiura]

Menu Item "Customize and Control DevTools" => Settings => Preferences or press F1 key while in DevTools

[Pacerier]

This method doesn't work. Guess restart is the only way.. mine crashed when I ran an infinite for of loop

[Albert Xing]

Note: this also resets all of your Devtool preferences, including custom UA overrides, etc

[valdeci]

It helped me, but I didn't have to restart chrome

[mwfearnley]

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.

[Ajeet Eppakayala]

Clicking on ... doesn't work there is settings icon next to it.