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3 useful features from Opera Dev tools that Chrome is missing

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37 pointsJuha10 comments

The first two points seem more inline with Chrome for Android... but afiak, Chrome does have remote debugging built-in, you just have to enable it via command line. It's build into WebKit and then up to the vendor to enable it... (I wish Safari on iOS had it...)

I agree with #3... a way to create requests with custom headers would be fantastic.. for example when you're trying to connect to an API via JS...

you can create / customize headers with extensions in chrome - there is an example extension provided with the Chrome extension development documentation.

I guess now Chrome has extension bindings to the webkit inspector, it would be possible to create this then.

This first point is wrong, it is easy to enable remote debugging, https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/re...

Point 3# is spot on though.

ps. Do sites realize that their slide out social buttons things actually cover the scrollbar making it impossible to scroll using a mouse click.

Blogger doesn't even seem to realize that if you don't have Javascript enabled, you can't access their content. (This includes fetching things with instapaper.)

This is sadly true. They don't work on Pocket either. I really like the clean style of their dynamic views, but apparently they should not be used yet. Some of the dynamic views also have problems displaying on mobile browsers. I should change back to a normal template as soon as I find a good one.

For those looking for something similar to the tool described in point #3, I've been using a very helpful chrome extension called 'REST Console' for that exact purpose: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cokgbflfommojglbmb...

I only problem with Opera's Dragonfly - and I mean only - is that I (seem to) need an active internet connection to use it.

Twice in the last year I have started working on experimental UI stuff on a plane, run into a quirk, and tried to start debugging... the futility only hits me once it fails to come right up.

I have all the usual http servers installed on my laptop, so it would be alright if I just needed to deploy something locally. But Opera has that capability baked into the browser already, so I'd appreciate it if they could just toss in Dragonfly as well.

It can be used offline if it's been loaded and cached - http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/running-opera-dragonfly-o...

Thanks for the excellent reference. That will help a great deal.

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