Jecelyn Yeen
Sofia Emelianova
What's new in DevTools
A list of everything that has been covered in the What's new in DevTools series.
- Console insights by Gemini are going live in most European countries
- Performance panel updates
- Enhanced Network track
- Customize performance data with extensibility API
- Details in the Timings track
- Copy all listed requests in the Network panel
- Faster heap snapshots with named HTML tags and less clutter
- Open Animations panel to capture animations and edit @keyframes live
- Lighthouse 12.1.0
- Accessibility improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Inspect CSS anchor positioning in the Elements panel
- Sources panel improvements
- Enhanced 'Never Pause Here'
- New scroll snap event listeners
- Network panel improvements
- Updated network throttling presets
- Service worker information in custom fields of the HAR format
- Send and receive WebSocket events in the Performance panel
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Performance panel improvements
- Move and hide tracks with updated track configuration mode
- Ignore scripts in the flame chart
- Throttle down the CPU by 20 times
- Performance insights panel will be deprecated
- Find excessive memory usage with new filters in heap snapshots
- Inspect storage buckets in Application > Storage
- Disable self-XSS warnings with a command-line flag
- Lighthouse 12.0.0
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Understand errors and warnings in the Console better with Gemini
- @position-try rules support in Elements > Styles
- Sources panel improvements
- Configure automatic pretty-printing and bracket closing
- Handled rejected promises are recognized as caught
- Error causes in the Console
- Network panel improvements
- Inspect Early Hints headers
- Hide the Waterfall column
- Performance panel improvements
- Capture CSS selector statistics
- Change order and hide tracks
- Ignore retainers in the Memory panel
- Lighthouse 11.7.1
- Miscellaneous highlights
- New Autofill panel
- Enhanced network throttling for WebRTC
- Scroll-driven animations support in the Animations panel
- Improved CSS nesting support in Elements > Styles
- Enhanced Performance panel
- Hide functions and their children in the flame chart
- Arrows from selected initiators to events they initiated
- Lighthouse 11.6.0
- Tooltips for special categories in Memory > Heap snapshots
- Application > Storage updates
- Bytes used for shared storage
- Web SQL is fully deprecated
- Coverage panel improvements
- The Layers panel might be deprecated
- JavaScript Profiler deprecation: Phase four, final
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Find the Easter egg
- Elements panel updates
- Emulate a focused page in Elements > Styles
- Color Picker, Angle Clock, and Easing Editor in
var()fallbacks - CSS length tool is deprecated
- Popover for the selected search result in the Performance > Main track
- Network panel updates
- Clear button and search filter in the Network > EventStream tab
- Tooltips with exemption reasons for third-party cookies in Network > Cookies
- Enable and disable all breakpoints in Sources
- View loaded scripts in DevTools for Node.js
- Lighthouse 11.5.0
- Accessibility improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- The official collection of Recorder extensions is live
- Network improvements
- Failure reason in the Status column
- Improved Copy submenu
- Performance improvements
- Breadcrumbs in the Timeline
- Event initiators in the Main track
- JavaScript VM instance selector menu for Node.js DevTools
- New shortcut and command in Sources
- Elements improvements
- The ::view-transition pseudo-element is now editable in Styles
- The align-content property support for block containers
- Posture support for emulated foldable devices
- Dynamic theming
- Third-party cookies phaseout warnings in the Network and Application panels
- Lighthouse 11.4.0
- Accessibility improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Elements improvements
- Streamlined filter bar in the Network panel
@font-palette-valuessupport- Supported case: Custom property as a fallback of another custom property
- Improved source map support
- Performance panel improvements
- Enhanced Interactions track
- Advanced filtering in Bottom-Up, Call Tree, and Event Log tabs
- Indentation markers in the Sources panel
- Helpful tooltips for overridden headers and content in the Network panel
- New Command Menu options for adding and removing request blocking patterns
- The CSP violations experiment is removed
- Lighthouse 11.3.0
- Accessibility improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Third-party cookie phaseout
- Analyze your website's cookies with the Privacy Sandbox Analysis Tool
- Enhanced ignore listing
- Default exclusion pattern for node_modules
- Caught exceptions now stop execution if caught or passing through non-ignored code
x_google_ignoreListrenamed toignoreListin source maps- New input mode toggle during remote debugging
- The Elements panel now shows URLs for #document nodes
- Effective Content Security Policy in the Application panel
- Improved animation debugging
- 'Do you trust this code?' dialog in Sources and self-XSS warning in Console
- Event listener breakpoints in web workers and worklets
- The new media badge for
<audio>and<video> - Preloading renamed to Speculative loading
- Lighthouse 11.2.0
- Accessibility improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Improved @property section in Elements > Styles
- Editable @property rule
- Issues with invalid @property rules are reported
- Updated list of devices to emulate
- Pretty-print inline JSON in script tags in Sources
- Autocomplete private fields in Console
- Lighthouse 11.1.0
- Accessibility improvements
- Web SQL deprecation
- Screenshot aspect ratio validation in Application > Manifest
- Miscellaneous highlights
- New section for custom properties in Elements > Styles
- More local overrides improvements
- Enhanced search
- Improved Sources panel
- Streamlined workspace in the Sources panel
- Reorder panes in Sources
- Syntax highlighting and pretty-printing for more script types
- Emulate prefers-reduced-transparency media feature
- Lighthouse 11
- Accessibility improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Network panel improvements
- Override web content locally even faster
- Override the content of XHR and fetch requests
- Hide Chrome extension requests
- Human-readable HTTP status codes
Performance: See the changes in fetch priority for network events
- Sources settings enabled by default: Code folding and automatic file reveal
- Improved debugging of third-party cookie issues
- New colors
- Lighthouse 10.4.0
- Debug preloading in the Application panel
- The C/C++ WebAssembly debugging extension for DevTools is now open source
- Miscellaneous highlights
- (Experimental) New rendering emulation: prefers-reduced-transparency
- (Experimental) Enhanced Protocol monitor
- Improved debugging of missing stylesheets
- Linear timing support in Elements > Styles > Easing Editor
- Storage buckets support and metadata view
- Lighthouse 10.3.0
- Accessibility: Keyboard commands and improved screen reading
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Elements improvements
- New CSS subgrid badge
- Selector specificity in tooltips
- Values of custom CSS properties in tooltips
- Sources improvements
- CSS syntax highlighting
- Shortcut to set conditional breakpoints
- Application > Bounce Tracking Mitigations
- Lighthouse 10.2.0
- Ignore content scripts by default
- Network > Response improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- WebAssembly debugging support
- Improved stepping behavior in Wasm apps
- Debug Autofill using the Elements panel and Issues tab
- Assertions in Recorder
- Lighthouse 10.1.1
- Performance enhancements
- performance.mark() shows timing on hover in Performance > Timings
- profile() command populates Performance > Main
- Warning for slow user interactions
- Web Vitals updates
- JavaScript Profiler deprecation: Phase three
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Override network response headers
- Nuxt, Vite, and Rollup debugging improvements
- CSS improvements in Elements > Styles
- Invalid CSS properties and values
- Links to key frames in the animation shorthand property
- New Console setting: Autocomplete on Enter
- Command Menu emphasizes authored files
- JavaScript Profiler deprecation: Stage two
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Recorder updates
- Recorder replay extensions
- Record with pierce selectors
- Export recordings as Puppeteer scripts with Lighthouse analysis
- Get extensions for Recorder
- Elements > Styles updates
- CSS documentation in the Styles pane
- CSS nesting support
- Marking logpoints and conditional breakpoints in the Console
- Ignore irrelevant scripts during debugging
- JavaScript Profiler deprecation started
- Emulate reduced contrast
- Lighthouse 10
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Debugging HD color with the Styles pane
- Enhanced breakpoint UX
- Customizable Recorder shortcuts
- Better syntax highlight for Angular
- Reorganize caches in the Application panel
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Clearing Performance Panel on reload
- Recorder updates
- View and highlight the code of your user flow in the Recorder
- Customize selector types of a recording
- Edit user flow while recording
- Automatic in-place pretty print
- Better syntax highlight and inline preview for Vue, SCSS and more
- Ergonomic and consistent Autocomplete in the Console
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Recorder: Copy as options for steps, in-page replay, step's context menu
- Show actual function names in performance's recordings
- New keyboard shortcuts in the Console & Sources panel
- Improved JavaScript debugging
- Miscellaneous highlights
- [Experimental] Enhanced UX in managing breakpoints
- [Experimental] Automatic in-place pretty print
- Hints for inactive CSS properties
- Auto-detect XPath and text selectors in the Recorder panel
- Step through comma-separated expressions
- Improved Ignore list setting
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Customize keyboard shortcuts in DevTools
- Toggle light and dark themes with keyboard shortcut
- Highlight C/C++ objects in the Memory Inspector
- Support full initiator information for HAR import
- Start DOM search after pressing
Enter - Display
startandendicons foralign-contentCSS flexbox properties - Miscellaneous highlights
- Group files by Authored / Deployed in the Sources panel
- Linked stack traces for asynchronous operations
- Automatically ignore known third-party scripts
- Improved call stack during debugging
- Hiding ignore-listed sources in the Sources panel
- Hiding ignore-listed files in the Command Menu
- New Interactions track in the Performance panel
- LCP timings breakdown in the Performance Insights panel
- Auto-generate default name for recordings in the Recorder panel
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Step-by-step replay in the Recorder
- Support mouse over event in the Recorder panel
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) in the Performance insights panel
- Identify flashes of text (FOIT, FOUT) as potential root causes for layout shifts
- Protocol handlers in the Manifest pane
- Top layer badge in the Elements panel
- Attach Wasm debugging information at runtime
- Support live edit during debugging
- View and edit @scope at rules in the Styles pane
- Source map improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Restart frame during debugging
- Slow replay options in the Recorder panel
- Build an extension for the Recorder panel
- Group files by Authored / Deployed in the Sources panel
- New User Timings track in the Performance insights panel
- Reveal assigned slot of an element
- Simulate hardware concurrency for Performance recordings
- Preview non-color value when autocompleting CSS variables
- Identify blocking frames in the Back/forward cache pane
- Improved autocomplete suggestions for JavaScript objects
- Source maps improvements
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Capture double-click and right-click events in the Recorder panel
- New timespan and snapshot mode in the Lighthouse panel
- Improved zoom control in the Performance Insights panel
- Confirm to delete a performance recording
- Reorder panes in the Elements panel
- Picking a color outside of the browser
- Improved inline value preview during debugging
- Support large blobs for virtual authenticators
- New keyboard shortcuts in the Sources panel
- Source maps improvements
- Preview feature: New Performance insights panel
- New shortcuts to emulate light and dark themes
- Improved security on the Network Preview tab
- Improved reloading at breakpoint
- Console updates
- Cancel user flow recording at the start
- Display inherited highlight pseudo-elements in the Styles pane
- Miscellaneous highlights
- [Experimental] Copy CSS changes
- [Experimental] Picking color outside of browser
- Import and export recorded user flows as a JSON file
- View cascade layers in the Styles pane
- Support for the
hwb()color function - Improved the display of private properties
- Miscellaneous highlights
- [Experimental] New timespan and snapshot mode in the Lighthouse panel
- View and edit @supports at rules in the Styles pane
- Support common selectors by default
- Customize the recording's selector
- Rename a recording
- Preview class/function properties on hover
- Partially presented frames in the Performance panel
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Throttling WebSocket requests
- New Reporting API pane in the Application panel
- Support wait until element is visible/clickable in the Recorder panel
- Better console styling, formatting and filtering
- Debug Chrome extension with source map files
- Improved source folder tree in the Sources panel
- Display worker source files in the Sources panel
- Chrome's Auto Dark Theme updates
- Touch-friendly color-picker and split pane
- Miscellaneous highlights
- Preview feature: Full-page accessibility tree
- More precise changes in the Changes tab
- Set longer timeout for user flow recording
- Ensure your pages are cacheable with the Back/forward cache tab
- New Properties pane filter
- Emulate the CSS forced-colors media feature
- Show rulers on hover command
- Support
row-reverseandcolumn-reversein the Flexbox editor - New keyboard shortcuts to replay XHR and expand all search results
- Lighthouse 9 in the Lighthouse panel
- Improved Sources panel
- Miscellaneous highlights
- [Experimental] Endpoints in the Reporting API pane
- Preview feature: New Recorder panel
- Refresh device list in Device Mode
- Autocomplete with Edit as HTML
- Improved code debugging experience
- Syncing DevTools settings across devices
- Preview feature: New CSS Overview panel
- Restored and improved CSS length edit and copy experince
- Emulate the CSS prefers-contrast media feature
- Emulate the Chrome's Auto Dark Theme feature
- Copy declarations as JavaScript in the Styles pane
- New Payload tab in the Network panel
- Improved the display of properties in the Properties pane
- Option to hide CORS errors in the Console
- Proper
Intlobjects preview and evaluation in the Console - Consistent async stack traces
- Retain the Console sidebar
- Deprecated Application cache pane in the Application panel
- [Experimental] New Reporting API pane in the Application panel
- New CSS length authoring tools
- Hide issues in the Issues tab
- Improved the display of properties
- Lighthouse 8.4 in the Lighthouse panel
- Sort snippets in the Sources panel
- New links to translated release notes and report a translation bug
- Improved UI for DevTools command menu
- Use DevTools in your preferred language
- New Nest Hub devices in the Device list
- Origin trials in the Frame details view
- New CSS container queries badge
- New checkbox to invert the network filters
- Upcoming deprecation of the Console sidebar
- Display raw
Set-Cookiesheaders in the Issues tab and Network panel - Consistent display native accessors as own properties in the Console
- Proper error stack traces for inline scripts with #sourceURL
- Change color format in the Computed pane
- Replace custom tooltips with native HTML tooltips
- [Experimental] Hide issues in the Issues tab
- Editable CSS container queries in the Styles pane
- Web bundle preview in the Network panel
- Attribution Reporting API debugging
- Better string handling in the Console
- Improved CORS debugging
- Lighthouse 8.1
- New note URL in the Manifest pane
- Fixed CSS matching selectors
- Pretty-printing JSON responses in the Network panel
- CSS grid editor
- Support for
constredeclarations in the Console - Source order viewer
- New shortcut to view frame details
- Enhanced CORS debugging support
- Rename XHR label to Fetch/XHR
- Filter Wasm resource type in the Network panel
- User-Agent Client Hints for devices in the Network conditions tab
- Report Quirks mode issues in the Issues tab
- Include Compute Intersections in the Performance panel
- Lighthouse 7.5 in the Lighthouse panel
- Deprecated "Restart frame" context menu in the call stack
- [Experimental] Protocol monitor
- [Experimental] Puppeteer Recorder
- Web Vitals information pop up
- New Memory inspector
- Visualize CSS scroll-snap
- New badge settings pane
- Enhanced image preview with aspect ratio information
- New network conditions button with options to configure
Content-Encodings - shortcut to view computed value
accent-colorkeyword- Categorize issue types with colors and icons
- Delete Trust tokens
- Blocked features in the Frame details view
- Filter experiments in the Experiments setting
- New
Vary Headercolumn in the Cache storage pane - Support JavaScript private brand check
- Enhanced support for breakpoints debugging
- Support hover preview with
[]notation - Improved outline of HTML files
- Proper error stack traces for Wasm debugging
- New CSS flexbox debugging tools
- New Core Web Vitals overlay
- Moved issue count to the Console status bar
- Report Trusted Web Activity issues
- Format strings as (valid) JavaScript string literals in the Console
- New Trust Tokens pane in the Application panel
- Emulate the CSS color-gamut media feature
- Improved Progressive Web Apps tooling
- New
Remote Address Spacecolumn in the Network panel - Performance improvements
- Display allowed/disallowed features in the Frame details view
- New
SamePartycolumn in the Cookies pane - Deprecated non-standard
fn.displayNamesupport - Deprecation of
Don't show Chrome Data Saver warningin the Settings menu - [Experimental] Automatic low-contrast issue reporting in the Issues tab
- [Experimental] Full accessibility tree view in the Elements panel
- Debugging support for Trusted Types violations
- Capture node screenshot beyond viewport
- New Trust Tokens tab for network requests
- Lighthouse 7 in the Lighthouse panel
- Support forcing the CSS
:targetstate - New shortcut to duplicate element
- Color pickers for custom CSS properties
- New shortcuts to copy CSS properties
- New option to show URL-decoded cookies
- Clear only visible cookies
- New option to clear third-party cookies in the Storage pane
- Edit User-Agent Client Hints for custom devices
- Persist "record network log" setting
- View WebTransport connections in the Network panel
- "Online" renamed to "No throttling"
- New copy options in the Console, Sources panel, and Styles pane
- New Service Workers information in the Frame details view
- Measure Memory information in the Frame details view
- Provide feedback from the Issues tab
- Dropped frames in the Performance panel
- Emulate foldable and dual-screen in Device Mode
- [Experimental] Automate browser testing with Puppeteer Recorder
- [Experimental] Font editor in the Styles pane
- [Experimental] CSS flexbox debugging tools
- [Experimental] New CSP Violations tab
- [Experimental] New color contrast calculation - Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA)
- Faster DevTools startup
- New CSS angle visualization tools
- Emulate unsupported image types
- Simulate storage quota size in the Storage pane
- New Web Vitals lane in the Performance panel
- Report CORS errors in the Network panel
- Cross-origin isolation information in the Frame details view
- New Web Workers information in the Frame details view
- Display opener frame details for opened windows
- Open Network panel from the Service Workers pane
- Copy property value
- Copy stacktrace for network initiator
- Preview Wasm variable value on mouseover
- Evaluate Wasm variable in the Console
- Consistent units of measurement for file/memory sizes
- Highlight pseudo elements in the Elements panel
- [Experimental] CSS Flexbox debugging tools
- [Experimental] Customize chords keyboard shortcuts
- New CSS Grid debugging tools
- New WebAuthn tab
- Move tools between top and bottom panel
- New Computed sidebar pane in the Styles pane
- Grouping CSS properties in the Computed pane
- Lighthouse 6.3 in the Lighthouse panel
performance.mark()events in the Timings section- New
resource-typeandurlfilters in the Network panel - Frame details view updates
- Deprecation of
Settingsin the More tools menu - [Experimental] View and fix color contrast issues in the CSS Overview panel
- [Experimental] Customize keyboard shortcuts in DevTools
- New Media panel
- Capture node screenshots using Elements panel context menu
- Issues tab updates
- Emulate missing local fonts
- Emulate inactive users
- Emulate
prefers-reduced-data - Support for new JavaScript features
- Lighthouse 6.2 in the Lighthouse panel
- Deprecation of "other origins" listing in the Service Workers pane
- Show coverage summary for filtered items
- New frame details view in Application panel
- Accessible color suggestion in the Styles pane
- Reinstate Properties pane in the Elements panel
- Human-readable
X-Client-Dataheader values in the Network panel - Auto-complete custom fonts in the Styles pane
- Consistently display resource type in Network panel
- Clear buttons in the Elements and Network panels
- Style editing for CSS-in-JS frameworks
- Lighthouse 6 in the Lighthouse panel
- First Meaningful Paint (FMP) deprecation
- Support for new JavaScript features
- New app shortcut warnings in the Manifest pane
- Service worker
respondWithevents in the Timing tab - Consistent display of the Computed pane
- Bytecode offsets for WebAssembly files
- Line-wise copy and cut in Sources Panel
- Console settings updates
- Performance panel updates
- New icons for breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, and logpoints
- Fix site issues with the new Issues tab
- View accessibility information in the Inspect Mode tooltip
- Performance panel updates
- More accurate promise terminology in the Console
- Styles pane updates
- Deprecation of the Properties pane in the Elements panel
- App shortcuts support in the Manifest pane
- Emulate vision deficiencies
- Emulate locales
- Cross-Origin Embedder Policy (COEP) debugging
- New icons for breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, and logpoints
- View network requests that set a specific cookie
- Dock to left from the Command Menu
- The Settings option in the Main Menu has moved
- The Audits panel is now the Lighthouse panel
- Delete all Local Overrides in a folder
- Updated Long Tasks UI
- Maskable icon support in the Manifest pane
- Moto G4 support in Device Mode
- Cookie-related updates
- More accurate web app manifest icons
- Hover over CSS
contentproperties to see unescaped values - Source map errors in the Console
- Setting for disabling scrolling past the end of a file
- Support for
letandclassredeclarations in the Console - Improved WebAssembly debugging
- Request Initiator Chains in the Initiator tab
- Highlight the selected network request in the Overview
- URL and path columns in the Network panel
- Updated User-Agent strings
- New Audits panel configuration UI
- Per-function or per-block code coverage modes
- Code coverage must now be initiated by a page reload
- Debug why a cookie was blocked
- View cookie values
- Simulate different prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion preferences
- Code coverage updates
- Debug why a network resource was requested
- Console and Sources panels respect indentation preferences again
- New shortcuts for cursor navigation
- Multi-client support in the Audits panel
- Payment Handler debugging
- Lighthouse 5.2 in the Audits panel
- Largest Contentful Paint in the Performance panel
- File DevTools issues from the Main Menu
- Copy element styles
- Visualize layout shifts
- Lighthouse 5.1 in the Audits panel
- OS theme syncing
- Keyboard shortcut for opening the Breakpoint Editor
- Prefetch cache in the Network panel
- Private properties when viewing objects
- Notifications and push messages in the Application panel
- Autocomplete with CSS values
- A new UI for network settings
- WebSocket messages in HAR exports
- HAR import and export buttons
- Real-time memory usage
- Service worker registration port numbers
- Inspect Background Fetch and Background Sync events
- Puppeteer for Firefox
- Meaningful presets when autocompleting CSS functions
- Clear site data from the Command Menu
- View all IndexedDB databases
- View a resource's uncompressed size on hover
- Inline breakpoints in the Breakpoints pane
- IndexedDB and Cache resource counts
- Setting for disabling the detailed Inspect tooltip
- Setting for toggling tab indentation in the Editor
- Highlight all nodes affected by CSS property
- Lighthouse v4 in the Audits panel
- WebSocket binary message viewer
- Capture area screenshot in the Command Menu
- Service worker filters in the Network panel
- Performance panel updates
- Long tasks in Performance panel recordings
- First Paint in the Timing section
- Bonus tip: Shortcut for viewing RGB and HSL color codes (video)
- Logpoints
- Detailed tooltips in Inspect Mode
- Export code coverage data
- Navigate the Console with a keyboard
- AAA contrast ratio line in the Color Picker
- Save custom geolocation overrides
- Code folding
- Frames tab renamed to Messages tab
- Bonus tip: Network panel filtering by property (video)
- Visualize performance metrics in the Performance panel
- Highlight text nodes in the DOM Tree
- Copy the JS path to a DOM node
- Audits panel updates, including a new audit that detects JS libraries and new keywords for accessing the Audits panel from the Command Menu
- Bonus tip: Use Device Mode to inspect media queries (video)
- Hover over a Live Expression result to highlight a DOM node
- Store DOM nodes as global variables
- Initiator and priority information now in HAR imports and exports
- Access the Command Menu from the Main Menu
- Picture-in-Picture breakpoints
- Bonus tip: Use
monitorEvents()to log a node's fired events in the Console (video) - Live Expressions in the Console
- Highlight DOM nodes during Eager Evaluation
- Performance panel optimizations
- More reliable debugging
- Enable network throttling from the Command Menu
- Autocomplete Conditional Breakpoints
- Break on AudioContext events
- Debug Node.js apps with ndb
- Bonus tip: Measure real world user interactions with the User Timing API
- Eager Evaluation
- Argument hints
- Function autocompletion
- ES2017 keywords
- Lighthouse 3.0 in the Audits panel
- BigInt support
- Adding property paths to the Watch pane
- "Show timestamps" moved to Settings
- Bonus tip: Lesser-known Console methods (video)
- Search across all network headers
- CSS variable value previews
- Copy as fetch
- New audits, desktop configuration options, and viewing traces
- Stop infinite loops
- User Timing in the Performance tabs
- JavaScript VM instances clearly listed in the Memory panel
- Network tab renamed to Page tab
- Dark theme updates
- Certificate transparency information in the Security panel
- Site isolation features in the Performance panel
- Bonus tip: Layers panel + Animations Inspector (video)
- Blackboxing in the Network panel
- Auto-adjust zooming in Device Mode
- Pretty-printing in the Preview and Response tabs
- Previewing HTML content in the Preview tab
- Local Overrides support for styles inside of HTML
- Bonus tip: Blackbox framework scripts to make Event Listener Breakpoints more useful
- Local Overrides
- New accessibility tools
- The Changes tab
- New SEO and performance audits
- Multiple recordings in the Performance panel
- Reliable code stepping with workers in async code
- Bonus tip: Automate DevTools actions with Puppeteer (video)
- Performance Monitor
- Console Sidebar
- Group similar Console messages
- Bonus tip: Toggle hover pseudo-class (video)
- Multi-client remote debugging support
- Workspaces 2.0
- 4 new audits
- Simulate push notifications with custom data
- Trigger background sync events with custom tags
- Bonus tip: Event listener breakpoints (video)
- Top-level await in the Console
- New screenshot workflows
- CSS Grid highlighting
- A new Console API for querying objects
- New Console filters
- HAR imports in the Network panel
- Previewable cache resources
- More predictable cache debugging
- Block-level code coverage
- Mobile device throttling simulation
- View storage usage
- View when a service worker cached responses
- Enable the FPS meter from the Command Menu
- Set mousewheel behavior to zoom or scroll
- Debugging support for ES6 modules
- New Audits panel
- 3rd-Party Badges
- A new gesture for Continue To Here
- Step into async
- More informative object previews in the Console
- More informative context selection in the Console
- Real-time updates in the Coverage tab
- Simpler network throttling options
- Async stacks on by default
- CSS and JS code coverage
- Full-page screenshots
- Block requests
- Step over async await
- Unified Command Menu