Does Chrome have a "Work Offline" option?

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DiMono picture DiMono · Apr 18, 2013 · Viewed 89.8k times · Source

I'm trying to test out my fallback page in my html5 cache manifest. I'd rather not have to actually disconnect from the internet in order to do it. I've heard that it doesn't work quite right in Chrome, so I need to test it specifically. Does Chrome have the ability to work offline? I've searched through the settings and the available extensions, and I can't find anything.

Answer

Raman picture Raman · Mar 29, 2015

It looks like Chrome now has this feature via Chrome developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I). Click on the "Device Mode" icon at the top-left. Now, a device and network bandwidth and latency (or completely offline) can be simulated using the dropdowns at the top of the screen:

Device and Network Selection

The screenshot above is from Chrome Version 42.0.2311.60 beta (64-bit) on Linux.

NOTE: As of Apr 2015, unfortunately this does not affect Websocket connections, which continue to operate regardless of the Network setting. See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423246.

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