Bug 214843

Summary:	Web Inspector: Web Inspector should allow to be opened on the new tab page
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Thomas Steiner <tomac>
Component:	Web Inspector	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED
Severity:	Normal	CC:	bburg, hi, inspector-bugzilla-changes, timothy, webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Thomas Steiner 2020-07-27 13:01:11 PDT

Chrome and Firefox DevTools can be opened from the new tab page, allowing developers to easily record first-time visits. The current annoying-ish work-around for Web Inspector is to first go to a dummy page like example.com, to then navigate to the actual target page. 

Real user feedback: http://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1287662764752883712

Comment 1 BJ Burg 2020-07-27 16:45:25 PDT

Thanks for the feedback. Another workaround is to set New Tabs Open With: to "Empty Page" (aka about:blank).

Comment 2 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2020-07-27 16:45:59 PDT

<rdar://problem/66189000>

Comment 3 BJ Burg 2020-07-27 16:47:12 PDT

This has been imported to Safari's bug tracker. The fix is likely not in WebKit, but I'll update the bug if we make progress on this.

Comment 4 Timothy Hatcher 2020-07-28 12:02:00 PDT

This has been fixed in Safari. Should appear in Safari Technology Preview 112.

Comment 5 Thomas Steiner 2020-07-29 02:33:37 PDT

Wow, thanks for the fast fix :-) Appeciated!