The last few weeks,
Google Chrome's developer tools have become much more useful. Besides benefiting from the work
the WebKit team has done to improve Web Inspector (our
developer tools are partially based on Web Inspector), we also recently released the
heap profiler and the timeline tab in Google Chrome's
Developer Channel.
With the heap profiler you can now take a snapshot
of the JavaScript heap at any point in time. A heap snapshot helps you understand memory
usage, and by comparing snapshots you can also follow memory usage over time. You will find
the heap profiler in the profiles tab along with the sample-based CPU profiler.
The new timeline view gives you a complete overview of where time is spent
when loading a web app. All events -- ranging from loading resources over parsing and
executing JavaScript to calculating styles and repainting -- are plotted on a timeline.
Besides these product improvements, we've tried to make the Google Chrome
Developer tools easier to find and understand by putting together mini
site with tutorials and videos.
To take our
newest release for a spin, get Google Chrome from the Developer Channel and you'll automatically be brought
up to date. We welcome your feedback and your contributions to improve
developer tools in WebKit and Google Chrome even more.
By Pavel Feldman, Software Engineer and
Anders Sandholm, Product Manager
The last few weeks,
Google Chrome's developer tools have become much more useful. Besides benefiting from the work
the WebKit team has done to improve Web Inspector (our
developer tools are partially based on Web Inspector), we also recently released the
heap profiler and the timeline tab in Google Chrome's
Developer Channel.