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Genuinely curious: what are you developing that you don’t ever need the network tab?

I don‘t know, like, average SPA stuff, a lot of React.

I just considered what the network tab actually is and I have of course used it before, to work on the loading speed of sites, but haven‘t done that for a while. The only performance work I‘ve done recently is with react profiler.

I have never used it to inspect API requests, which I assume it can do? I‘m comfortable with Charles proxy, which is likely overkill.

My usage is maybe 45% elements, 45% console, 5 % source/debugger, 3% storage, 2% network. Somehow I dislike elements UI in chrome.

Now I‘m thinking that I may be missing out and should look at what it does and what chrome could give me.

Edit: after playing around with it for a few minutes: I have in fact been missing out and using Charles and Paw way too much when I could have done it way quicker in the browser. I hope I don't have to switch to chrome now.

I was going to tease you but you've realized the error of your ways. Unless you don't value your time, by all means, continue to use Charles and Paw. Network tab is great.

I've been using Safari as my browsing browser and Chrome as my development browser for years. Chrome's network tab is way better than Safari and their profiling tools are also very useful.

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