How do I view the storage of a Chrome Extension I've installed?

There is a very helpful extension to work with both localStorage and chrome.storage that I recently discovered, that works as a Dev Tools panel.

Storage Area Explorer

I did not write this, but it was suggested by the author on some other SO question.

I will proceed to amalgamate the existing knowledge present in several answers, into a simple and comprehensive one. If you vote up this one, please do the same with the ones from @mwkwok and @chaohuang.

It is true that stuff saved using chrome.storage does not show up in developer tools, there you can only see stuff saved using regular localStorage API. Do this:

1. Open your extension's background page by going to chrome://extensions/ ("Developer mode" needs to be checked to see background pages)

2. Go to the Console tab and type this:

chrome.storage.local.get(function(result){console.log(result)})

This will spit the whole storage as a JSON object into the console.

You're right that chrome.storage does not show up in developer tools. The only way I've found to view all of it is by putting this into console:

chrome.storage.local.get(function(result){console.log(result)})

This will spit the JSON object into console.