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by LethargicStud 2978 days ago
Thanks for all the great work on dev-tools. I recently started developing a chrome extension and found that not all of the great standard functionality was present. Here were some of the main pain points:

- debugger; statements do not work for me

- When right clicking the extension and clicking Inspect Popup, the first few network requests are not reported in the network tab (seems that it starts recording after the extension opens)

- It took a very long time for me to figure out that cookies were not being set due to this permission: (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declare_permissions)

- Hot-reloading extension code would be extremely nice

Even just extra documentation on dev-tools with extensions or tips/tricks for debugging extensions would be excellent - I haven't been able to find much in the way of docs. Keep doing the excellent work you're doing, just thought I'd give some suggestions :)

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Learning more about Extensions is one of my nagging TODOs. I'll see if our Extensions writer is up for the task, otherwise I'll take a crack at it this quarter. Thanks for the specific feedback.