RESOLVED WONTFIX 66367
Web Inspector: Would be great to have a possibility to suspend XHR requests 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66367
Summary Web Inspector: Would be great to have a possibility to suspend XHR requests
Kirill Maximov
Reported 2011-08-17 04:04:32 PDT
When I'm trying to inspect page elements, I don't want it to be updated due to some XHR requests in background. When the page fragment is refreshed due to AJAX update, the selection jumps to the closest non-modified element of DOM. And this is really inconvenient. The request is to add a kind of "Suspend XHR requests until page reload" button somewhere on the Network panel.
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Pavel Feldman
Comment 1 2011-08-17 05:36:28 PDT
XHRs are initiated by the page itself, so it is strange that you want to suspend them. There are several workarounds for the scenario you are describing: 1. If you can author the page, remove XHR calls, otherwise 2. re-define XHR's send/open methods or XHR class as a whole in console or 3. live edit to mute / comment call sites or 4. Add an XHR breakpoint with the .* mask Feel free to reopen if I missed the purpose of this request.
Kirill Maximov
Comment 2 2011-08-17 07:12:11 PDT
XHR breakpoint does the trick, thanks!
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