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Is it possible to change Chrome's view-source behaviour to use the current request instead of starting a new one?

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Mar 15, 202613214 views
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I like Firefox's behaviour of loading the source from the currently loaded webpage. Chrome, instead, starts a new request. This makes it especially hard to view source of POST-requests, for example, since every view-source request utilizes GET. Is there a way to change the way Google Chrome's view-…

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Is there a way to change the way Google Chrome's view-source works, so that it does not initialize a new request? No, this is the way Chrome works by design. When you "view source", you're really opening a new tab that opens the page again and displ…

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