IE11 F12 Developer Tools on Windows 7 functionality missing/not working? - windows-7-x64

I was using IE10 on Windows 7 but it is such a buggy piece of you-know-what (hanging, crashing, etc.) that I gave up and installed IE11. It has not hung or crashed since installing. But I hate the F12 developer tools! Okay, not completely - there are some very cool new features. What I don't like is that they seem to have dropped several features that I really liked! Unless I'm just missing something... I've searched and searched on Google and Microsoft but all of the help I've found only describes the new features. Here is what I'm missing: Color picker, Ruler, and most of all, the Clear browser cache for this domain. They allege to have a Clear browser cache function, but it doesn't work! So when I make changes to my website, in particular changing graphics, the only way I can see the change is to delete all my temporary files from IE. Then I lose all of my cookies e.g. for automatically logging in to Stack Overflow! IE version 11.0.9600.16428 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

The color picker is still available, go to the DOM Explorer tab and there is an eye dropper on the tool bar at the top towards the left. That activates the color picker.

For the issue of serving cached files try toggling on "Always refresh from server" on the network tool (3rd option from the left). This should get you the latest changes from your server.

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Black windows issue

I develop a web browser based on gtk+ and webkit2gtk in Rust and sometimes, all GTK+ windows become black.
Even the gtk inspector window that we get with the environment variable GTK_DEBUG=interactive is black.
Even thought the windows are black, the UI is still responsive since I can navigate the web with the keyboard (I see the window title updating, showing the new page URL and load progress).
Here are two actions that triggers this issue everytime they happen:
Destroying the web view
When running the application a second time, it sends a message via Unix Domain Socket to the first process so that it creates a new web view.
I have unfortunately no small example to reproduce the issue. If you want, I can show you the code of the project, but it is big, non-trivial and uses many abstraction layers over gtk+.
I know I don't give you a lot to help me, but if you can give me some explanations about how the rendering works and how to debug that, it would be very appreciated.
Can you give me some hints on how to debug this issue?
Is there a global OpenGL (or whatever) context for the GTK+ windows?
Are there some debuging tools to help me? (Setting G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all does not show anything relevant.)
With strace, I was able to debug this issue:
I found out the FD used for IPC communication was still polled after being closed, so it was returning POLLNVAL.
Removing the FD with g_source_remove_unix_fd() fixed this issue.

modified CSS3 codes working on IE, but not on Chrome

why does this happen? I'm using eclipse neon.1 and tried changing the color of the font in the CSS3 code and it worked on both internal browser and IE9, but not on chrome. I restarted the server a lot of times and even rebooted the computer but it still won't be applied on Chrome....
Right click on the text and go to inspect element, see if it shows newly applied style in styles section in developer tools. If not you may need to clear cache using Ctrl+Shift+Delete and reload the app.

My Visual studio 2013 typing and scrolling is slow. What Can i do?

I'm Currently working on Visual studio 2013 (MVC 5). Since few days I'm getting a problem with typing and scrolling, database is connecting slow. But all working fine but slowly.
Problems:
When typing a letter that keyword display taking long time and some
times not displayed.
Scrolling the solution explorer does not response correctly.
Connect the Database is not showing the connection string.
I searched on the internet and found smooth scroll plugin. After installing that it worked for some hours only after that getting same problem
Apart from Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 which will play an important role here you can also check other solutions listed below.
For smooth scrolling you could try the below steps :
For smooth scrolling install this extension
In VS Go Tools > Environment > General.
My Install had the "Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance" checked which was using software-accelerated rendering. I unchecked this and checked "Use hardware graphics acceleration if available".
Restart VS
Slow building, debugging, navigating ?
Why is VS 2013 very slow?
More references :
MSDN
You need to check two things: CPU load and drive load. Open the Task Manager and observe the CPU load to determine if the problem is due to the CPU is being overloaded. Watch the HDD LED to see if it flashing rapidly or on and solid to see if the problem is due to the hard-drive is being thrashed (and thus overloaded). Both can cause this symptom. If you find either to be the case, then your next step is to figure out why the system is being burdened.
if 0% CPU and 0% disk. But any text editing heavily lags? Must be due to some sort of plugin or something. I know the CodeLens, Insights, and Microsoft Git have had issues reported with slow IDE response.
Also try disabling Synchronized Settings in VS. Go to Tools -> Options -> Environment-Synchronized Settings and remove this option by un-checking the check box.
Update your Visual Studio get working normally.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2013-update5-vs.aspx

How can I re-use the same Chrome Developer Tools Window for every tab/window?

I am very used to Mozilla Firefox - Firebug. When I use Firebug it isn't linked with a particular window, it changes when you switch window or tab so the Firebug instance always show the active window, html, css, javascript etc...
As I am e Web Developer I need to test a lot in different browsers. In Google Chrome the Developer Tools seems to have linked to it's own tab/window. Sometimes this is very helpfull because it allows you to compare 2 different html-trees or css in multiple Developer Tools windows. However can I re-use the Chrome Developer Tools like it will behave as Firebug does. With just 1 instance which automatically switch between source when I switch tabs or windows? I have searched for some option but could find it in somewhere. Is this even possible with Chrome Developer Tools?
I'm using OSX Yosemite and currently Google Chrome Version 43.0.2357.130 (64-bit).
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.
This is not supported. The best thing to do would be to file a feature request in the issue tracker. I doubt this kind of functionality would be implemented.
What DevTools does is store the settings locally, so the same settings persist between all opens. Each tab you wish to debug you need to explicitly open the DevTools for; these will all share the same settings and as they are changed in one instance it will populate to the others. This keeps the context from switching on-the-fly by just changing tabs and then losing your place.

VSCode plugins and thoughts on alpha release

So I'm starting to guess Javascript wasn't the best choice for VSCode to be based on. It is pretty much the same as SublimeText and even slower, though the debugger and code intel is awesome and far beyond Sublime's capabilities.
The thing is I suddenly got a chrome-like inspector frame on the right side of the window, which caught my attention and got me googling about it (too bad almost nobody is talking about vscode yet so it's a pain to even find some info), and found out another person got the same weird issue. Somebody told him that F12 opens the inspector like a normal web app so you can look under the hood (which os most likely bullcrap since it makes no sense, probably just a bug).
The thing is I decided to test out keypresses, and discovered Fn+Shift+Cmd+F12 opens a new window with a weird button and a web inspector, which has no utility at all, but it's there so I got curious and messed up with it for a while. Bad idea since it crashed the entire app.
All this story has the point of warning about how Javascript is not as stable and independent as Objective C, since it's obviously working on top of V8 and Webkit and whatnot, any of which multiply its chances to crash.
Sublime has also crashed for me a couple times, but it does Atom Saving (operating system's native autosave that stores every change in the filesystem so app crashes don't affect the files).
VSCode is not native and is in a very alpa state (version 0.1.0 as today), so this is kind of a feedback for them and a warning for other users, posted here because there is a link for this stackoverflow community on their website, and is the only community-driven way of feedback they have.
I wish they open the development so others can contribute or, at least, do like SublimeText which isn't open but supports extensibility thru plugins and python console.
Now, the question:
Is there a way to make Sublime plugins work here?
The keybindings you have found are used by us internally to debug VSCode quickly in case we notice a problem. We simply forgot to remove them, kind of like how Ctrl+Alt+Delete happened :).
We will remove these keybindings with our next update, to avoid confusion, in a couple of weeks.
We have plans on supporting plugins, we have made progress on this story, but we were not happy enough with the API, and we decided to further validate and improve it before making it public, to avoid as much as possible future API breakage.
As for the actual question, it is not possible to run Sublime plugins in VSCode, for similar reasons why it is not possible to run Sublime plugins in Eclipse or in Visual Studio. There is, however the possibility of code sharing between plugins developed for different platforms, see for example Omnisharp, which is shipped with VSCode and for which there is a Sublime plugin.
You're complaining about VSCode being created using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and not something like C# or Objective C. You do realize that since day one the following Apple apps were made with a similar hybrid approach of Objective C and HTML, CSS and JavaScript. These are apps that millions of people use: iOS: iTunes app, iTunes Store app, App Store, and on desktop: iTunes, App Store.
Visual Studio Code is a preview, meaning something that just left alpha stage development and is in early, early, early beta, like just a week ago. So there are lots of things that are still missing or not totally working yet. The Visual Studio team is working at three-week sprints and intend to update the product at that pace, so if you've downloaded it, don't expect it to have every possible feature yet. This is a preview. Explore it. If it doesn't fit your current workflow, don't use it. Stick with what you have. But keep an eye on it because it will evolve steadily over the coming months.
I tried F12 in VSCode on windows and it opened the Dev Tools window, which makes sense since it's built on GIT's open source editor Atom & Chrome.
Sublime plugins? No, you can't use ST3 plugins in Atom, but hopefully we'll be able to use Atom plugins in VSCode once plugins are included in VSCode.
At the moment VSCode don't have any functionality for plugins, but it's coming soon see forum
There is also menu item under help in VSCode for reporting issues and suggesting features.
Me too would like Plugins for VS Code. As I would like a WakaTime plugin as I'm spending so much time working in it :). Both on Mac as in Windows.
I also discovered F12 one day but just thought: 'wow pretty cool!' and nothing more. But hey, I'm a webdev.. :)
It's now october and it's still there. And I hope it will stay. Just like crrl+alt+delete. #Sebastian I agree with #JimmyBoh, the whole preamble of this question is probably better suited to be put on a forum. Otherwise this question will probably be closed as 'not constructive'. To prevent other non-answers like this one :).