Chrome dev tools console completely blank

Question

The problem is not that my console.log is not printed in the console. The problem is that the console is initially blank. I need to switch the tabs back and for

Answer 1

Your preferences have probably become corrupted. If you can reproduce the bug, please open a ticket at http://crbug.com/new.

Reset the preferences to resolve the issue. These are saved in localStorage on chrome-devtools://devtools, so you need to open the devtools of the devtools (step 1-2 of https://stackoverflow.com/a/21149275/938089), and either:

• Run localStorage.clear() (switch to the Console tab or press Esc to open a drawer)
• OR Go to Resources, Local Storage and delete all items of the dev tools one by one.

Answer 2

The suggestion of clearing localStorage either didn't work or only worked temporarily for me. As mentioned in some of the comments, the solution that worked for me was to:

1. Open developer tools
2. Open settings pane from top right (or F1)
3. Click the 'Restore defaults and reload' button

I should also mention that I'm using Google Chrome 53.0.2754.0 canary (64-bit).