Big source / minified files make Chrome Developer Tools freeze

Question

Opening big JavaScript files, such as minified files on Chrome Developer Tools, tab Sources, makes it freeze. On a project of mine, if I click on jquery-1.11.1.min.js it hangs and I can't do anything other then close the tab. To make things even harder, Chrome remembers the last file opened on the Source tab, and remembers the last tab opened, so I have to open another website, fire up Developer Tools and change tabs in order to make it work on my project. I had to debug using Firefox instead of Chrome.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36411530/big-source-minified-files-make-chrome-developer-tools-freeze

Answer 1

This is a known bug: Chromium Bug Tracker - Issue 593679 - [REGRESSION] DevTools: Big sources hang the Developer Tools, and it's currently fixed, but not available on regular/stable Google Chrome or Chromium.

The temporary solution is to use Chrome Canary.