When debugging in chrome, the scripts are always paused in the debugger even if there are no break points set, and if the the pause is un-paused, it again pauses itself.
Another user mentioned this in slight detail but I missed it until I came back here about 3 times over 2 days -
There is a section titled EventListener breakpoints that contains a list of other breakpoints that can be set. It happens that I accidentally enabled one of them on DOM Mutation that was letting me know whenever anything to the DOM was overridden. Unfortunately this led to me disabling a bunch of plug-ins and add-ons before I realized it was just my machine. Hope this helps someone else.