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Can I debug Desktop Safari with Chrome Devtools?


Safari's Web Inspector is absolutely awful, and it keeps crashing on me. One of my colleagues suggested using Chrome Devtools to inspect Safari pages via Remote Debugging. I haven't found anything on Google for how to do such a thing--is that possible?


Solution

  • Safari and Chrome use different debugging protocols (initially these were very similar, but over time they grew into separate things). Thankfully, there is a Google project that does the translation between these protocols - iOS WebKit Debug Proxy. It doesn't mention desktop Safari though.