When safari or Chrome loads localhost, it shows a small load time indicator
I noticed recently that when using Chrome or Safari for developing, I see this little indicator in the upper-left of the screen that shows me the load time of the page. If I click on it will change positions I think, and disclose a larger panel showing more info about the page load.
I feel a little silly but I don't know what this is -- it isn't an extension AFAIK (I disabled all extension), it happens in BOTH Safari and Chrome, and it only happens when developing on 127.0.0.1 or localhost
SO.. my question is, can I 1) disable it, or 2) move it to another corner on the window?
It's a patently straightforward usecase: All I want to do is take a screenshot of the "Hello World" that is below the indicator, but it is covered up.
I don't remember seeing this until recently I am assuming it is something I just never noticed or something new in Webkit
UPDATE 2021-03-13
- Does it let you inspect it in developer tools, perhaps by using mouseover selection? Its attributes and CSS classes might give you something specific to search for.
Yes I can inspect it. it seems to be on my page. I wonder is this from Ruby on Rails? huh?
it looks like so:
- Does it happen in Firefox? If so, it's probably not a browser thing, but a server thing.
Yes! Another good call my friend. So, not webkit or browser you're right.
- What http server are you using? Could it be adding the thing automatically?
It must be something new in Ruby on Rails that I never noticed before. I will confirm and post here again.
What you're looking at is called https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler and can be enabled and disabled at will using Alt+P.
You can verify this by clicking an entry and clicking more. At least on the version I am using, it will report that you are looking at rack-mini-profiler, like so:
