Inspectable Web Contents not working. Shows empty page

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February 6, 2020
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I am seeing an error when I open the chrome debugger:

inspector.js:2964 Uncaught TypeError: document.registerElement is not a function

And the following warnings:

DevTools failed to parse SourceMap: chrome-extension://gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/include.preload.js.map
DevTools failed to parse SourceMap: chrome-extension://gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/include.postload.js.map

This was working fine yesterday. I have the feeling that Chrome updated automatically and something changed. Any ideas?

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nicolas gans

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Hi, I was having the same problem, the solution with Chromium 79 works, BUT the sourcemaps doesn't. You should try this alternative solution which worked pretty well for me : devTools + sourcemaps are back !

https://community.adobe.com/t5/get-started/adobe-extension-debuger-problem/m-p/10923268?page=1#M454407

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iamnish_17

Participant

remove any ad blockers and then do a hard reload

had the same issue, worked for me after disabling ad blocker (chrome extension)

Hope this helps !!!

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stevegroveuk

Participant

I got teh same last week due to the (auto)update to chrome v80+ which broke this. Installing chromium at v79.xxx as described is a good solution.

Although it looks as if chromium v80 is starting to be the default install for many package managers (linux) so I have setup a virtual box VM (using a vagrant cloud box) with ubuntu 14.04 and chrome v65 or v79 etc. with updates turned off. Now I can debug older platforms without compromising my own installed browsers. Hope this helps (and hope even more that Google reintroduce support)

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jorgeg30723821Author

Known Participant

I was able to get around this problem by installing a previous version of Chromium (it runs as a separate app). I am not sure this is the best solution but it works.

In my case I am using a mac and got Version 79.0.3945.0 from here:

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Mac/706915/

I believe you can find other versions here:

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html

This page explains how to find a version:

https://techjourney.net/how-to-download-install-previous-old-version-of-google-chrome/