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Disable automatic saving of CSS changes in Chrome Developer Tools


I am referring to the save feature in the 'Sources' panel of the Chrome Dev Tools. I have been using this feature for a long time in the stable release of Chrome, but after installing the build from the developer channel, I notice that once I have saved the file the first time, Chrome no longer prompts me to save and just does it automatically after every change I make.

This is quite a pain, as I make a lot of changes experimentally in the dev tools whilst debugging which I don't wish to save, I would like Chrome to save the file only when I explicitly tell it to.

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable this automatic CSS saving?

(Apologies for no screenshot, my PrtScn key seemingly won't operate when I am in a context menu)

Update:

I have reverted to the current stable build, 27.0.1453.93, and the behaviour appears to be the same.


Solution

  • Alas, I learned after reading a post by Google's dev relations person that the automatic save cannot be disabled and it seems that's the way it's going to stay. html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/revolutions2013

    ā€“ tommypyatt Feb 21 '14 at 14:22