(Chrome DevTools team here). We cleaned up the filtering as it was totally inconsistent across all panels. So now it introduces one more click, but felt like generally that extra click was OK. I think we can still improve the UX, however. Which panels do you most use filters on (and for what?) Console, Network?
Network is definitely the one I always click to turn the filters on.
Hey Paul,
I'm trapped on Chromium-30.0.1599.101 (same goes for similar Chrome version) because DevTools freeze for ~3 minutes after GWT's SuperDevMode recompilation on newer Chrome/Chromium. There is huge regression in performance after Chromium 32.x.xxxx.xxx. Chromium-30.0.1599.101 is the latest version without this problem on my distro.
I've tried to report this but you guys don't have proper bug tracker only form in the about menu.
http://crbug.com/ is the place to file tickets for us. File something and we can take a look!
99% of the time I just want XHR, so this change added an extra click every time I open dev tools to look at the Network panel (also this step can be laggy if you're in development and you have hundreds of separate requests for your scripts/stylesheets, which I never care about). So I could actually be in favour of hiding away the filters if I could just set a default filter? Or if it just remembered my last selection?
Network most definitely, for checking requests. Using filtering there is very useful as it allows me to quickly toggle between All and Scripts / XHR.
I knew they were attently watching on this thread... :)
I think this dumbing-down approach Google is doing with all their apps and websites will only alienate more and more professionals out of using their platform.