How to disable chromed auto recording developer tools on the network?

Question

In the developer’s chrome tools, every time the page loads, I click on the "Network" tab and see the "record" button active / red. Even if I turn off the recording of network traffic when I refresh one page or open another site, I can see that Chrome records traffic on the Network tab.

When developing large web applications that have a lot of traffic - third-party apis, static CDNs from Amazon, Google and all the assets of the application that should be downloaded as images, js files, css files, etc. etc. - this "network" tab is very slow and my browser is stuck a lot. This makes my development time less productive because I have to wait every time I want to check something on the Networks tab.

Is it possible to disable the default recording? Can the Record button be gray, and when I want it to start recording, I just click on it and start to see traffic?

Answer 1

I do not know how to disable standard transcoding, but you can do the following:

• Open a new blank tab
• Hit F12
• Disable network recording
• Paste the URL of your application into the address bar

Thus, you do not need to load the page once before disabling network recording, which is your problem because I understand it because you have a lot of resource downloads.

Answer 2

There is a button in the upper left corner of the network panel. It looks like a little red circle, you can click to stop recording network events.

I just turned it off, updated this page and saw nothing. Something like what you were looking for?

Answer 3

By default, it does not record anything until you open the F12 tools (even if the circle was red the first time it was opened). If you do not have F12 tools, they will not record history. When you first open it, if you notice below, it tells you that nothing is cached, and refresh the page if you want to see network traffic. If there is still a lot of traffic on your site when you open the F12 tools, it will start reporting at this point, but nothing earlier.

I am pretty doubtful that this is the source of your moderation. It really just captures all the HTTP traffic and saves the request / responses, this is not a lot of work, actually very little. Resource / profile / timeframe components that may be more consuming are disabled by default.

Answer 4

Solution 2017: The only thing that works for me is opening this page:

chrome://serviceworker-internals/

And then Unregister and Stop all working there.