This page lists the ways you can customize Chrome DevTools.
Settings
Settings > Preferences contains many options for customizing DevTools.
To open Settings, do one of the following:
Press F1 while DevTools is in focus.
Open the Main Menu and then select Settings .
Figure 1 . Settings.
Drawer
The Drawer contains many hidden features.
Press Escape to open or close the Drawer.
Figure 2 . The Drawer.
Click More to open other
Drawer tabs.
Figure 3 : The button for opening Drawer tabs, outlined in blue.
Reorder panels
Click and drag a panel tab to change its ordering. Your custom tab order
persists across DevTools sessions.
Figure 4 : A DevTools window with a custom tab ordering. By default,
the Network panel tab is usually the fourth from the left. In the
screenshot, it's the first from the left.
Change DevTools placement
See Chrome DevTools Placement .
Figure 5 . Undocked DevTools.
Dark theme
See Enable Dark Theme .
Figure 6 . The dark theme.
Experiments
To enable DevTools experiments:
Go to chrome://flags/#enable-devtools-experiments
.
Click Enable .
Click Relaunch Now , at the bottom of the page.
The next time you open DevTools, there's a new page called Experiments
in Settings .
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