How to disable chrome developer tools automatic network recording?
I don't know of an option to turn off the default recoding BUT you can do the following:
- Open a new empty tab
- Hit F12
- Disable Network Recording
- Paste the url of your application to the adressbar
This way you don't have to load the page once before disabling network recording, which is your problem from what I understand, because you have a lot of resources loading.
2018 solution: The only thing that works for me is opening this page:
chrome://serviceworker-internals/
And then Unregister and Stop all workers there.
There's a button in the top left of the Network Panel. It looks like a little red circle, you can hit that to stop recording network events.
I just disabled it, refreshed this page and saw nothing in there. Is something like that what you were looking for?