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Comment by dkyc | Hacker News Reader

Been using this for a while now. One very annoying thing is the weird caching behaviour of the settings: If I switch into emulation mode on tab #1 and then open the dev tools in tab #2, the second tab will also emulate the same screen resolution. However, when I reset the emulation in tab #2, tab #1 will not be changed. Is there any sense in this behaviour?

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I've seen a lot of developers want to simultaneously test a given site with different device characteristics. So here you can have a few tabs open (iPhone, iPad, Samsung S4) all on the same page, with LiveReload so you're getting instant feedback as you develop across all those device types.

My other beef with this is not being able to close the tools in order to see the bottom of the screen. This something you can do in Firefox Aurora. You can open the dev tools, hit the emulator tab, and the responsive window runs on its own you so can see the whole window.

The one thing this does really well is the touch events. Firefox dev tools have it too, but it doesn't seem to work as well as on Chrome.

> not being able to close the tools in order to see the bottom of the screen

Right-side docking solved that for me.

The "Fit" checkbox will scale the viewport you've set to fit within the available space. It's actually awesome to have regardless of you needing to emulate a device or not. And yeah, right-docked tools work great here. We've recently changed the default to that. :)

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