View Devices opens inspect tab

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View Devices opens inspect tab

[paulirish]

@stefanhoth make sure you turn on the USB debugging settings for both Android and Chrome
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging#enable-usb-debugging

[stefanhoth]

I checked the settings and all is fine. The devices seem to be recognized (displaying nothing, 1 or 2 depending how many devices are connected) but "View Devices" still leads me to the inspect tab. I tested with emulators as well as real devices.

What I'm doing wrong?

[samhed]

The instructions at https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging indicates that "View Devices" is intended to open the inspect tab. A quote from the instructions:

"Click View Devices to open the chrome://inspect page that displays each connected device and its tabs.
Find the mobile device tab you want to debug and Click the inspect link next to its URL."

I do not believe this is a bug or that you are doing anything wrong.

[stefanhoth]

Ok, sorry. It's a bit confusing as I would have expected to have a more clear view on debug-able pages from my mobile devices.
Thanks for clearing this up.

[paulirish]

I'll leave this open for now. I can update the text of the extension to be a bit more clear.

[paulirish]

tweaked wording and added link to help: