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DevTools Lost Syntax Highlighting for JavaScript

See original GitHub issue

Description

The dev tool (“Sources” tab) lost syntax highlighting for JavaScript.

Steps to Reproduce

Open any website with JavaScript.
Ctrl+Shift+I to open dev tools.
Go to “Sources” tab and Ctrl+P to open any .js file.

Actual result:

No highlighting for JavaScript.

Expected result:

Has highlighting for JavaScript just like Chrome or Firefox.

Reproduces how often:

Always happens after 12:00PM (PST) today (12/12/2019).

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.1.20 Chromium: 79.0.3945.74 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	99b6d241cf84f7fa7434ae8a59f9e74eb1464280-refs/branch-heads/3945@{#888}
OS	Windows 10 OS Version 1803 (Build 17134.1130)

Version/Channel Information:

Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Yes
Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? Didn’t try.
Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Didn’t try.

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No.
Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No.
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No.

Miscellaneous Information:

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:15 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

bscliftoncommented, Dec 13, 2019

@qingxiang-jia did you go to brave://settings/privacy and enable Remote Debugging? Screen Shot 2019-12-13 at 3 01 47 PM

1reaction

bscliftoncommented, Jan 7, 2020

Issue created to proxy these calls and enable the setting by default: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7645

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