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How do you get developer tools working? I'm using PPA builds as well, and I have no access to dev tools. Tried launching it with some flags and still no luck. Can't find documentation anywhere :/

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To get to the firebug-ish dev tools, right click and select "Inspect Element", or pull down on the "Control" menu (top right) and you should see a Developer menu.

I see the Developer menu, but "Developer Tools" is not listed on my Ubuntu build like it is on my Windows build. :/

I'm pretty sure I can't Inspect Element on my ubuntu build either, but I will try it when I get home.

If you hook into the Google repo, the unstable Chrome builds have "Inspect Element", but the daily PPA builds of Chromium haven't for me. As I stated earlier though, I haven't updated them for a couple of months though.

You need to install the "chromium-browser-inspector" package and restart Chromium.

The firebug-like plugin is in a separate package: chromium-browser-inspector

take a look in synaptic, searching for "chromium" and you'll find that there is a separate package for the dev tools

Thanks! I will give this a try shortly.

For those installing via aptitude/apt-get, it's called "chromium-browser-inspector".

Thanks! I'm annoyed at myself that I never thought to check for a separate package for it. Oh god finally web inspector on Linux so happy :) :)

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