Chrome Debugging tutorial appears not do work. What I'm doing wrong?

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I'm trying this Google tutorial to debug my Chrome extension:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tut_debugging.html

  • I've switched to developer mode on the Extensions page
  • Installed the Hello World extension as advised by the tutorial

Now I'm right clicking the icon of the Hello World extension to get the menu.

In this menu (and developer mode on) there is supposed to be an item called Inspect popup, but it's just not there. It's not on any other extension either.

I'm using Chrome V21 on Windows 7 x64.

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1 Answers

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The "Inspect popup" option is back, the answer below is no longer valid for recent Chrome versions (~27?).

That tutorial is slightly outdated. Indeed, in the past, every browser action button had a menu option called "Inspect popup". When a browser action didn't have an associated popup, the option was still visible, but disabled.

Now, you have to open the popup by clicking on it, then right-click inside the displayed popup and choose the "Inspect Element" option in order to launch a dev tools instance for the popup.