Google Chrome Developer Toolkit is Slow

Question

I have been using Google Chrome\'s dev tool kit (element inspection, stack trace, javascript debugging, etc.) for some time with great success.

However, about two weeks

Answer 1

I've had the same problem, tried the same solutions without luck, until I fired procmon and saw that Chrome was actually reading my entire Projects folder (which is several hundred thousand files worth).

There was a reference to that folder in the Workspace/Folders section in the dev tools Settings app. Removing the reference solved the problem.