DevTools pinning customization

[aadhil-kh]

Allow pinning individual Dev Tools like Network, Performance etc., as it is leading to accidental closure sometimes while switching.

[captainbrosset]

Thanks @aadhilrf! If I understand correctly, while switching tabs in DevTools, you sometimes accidentally close them. And to avoid this, you'd like a way to pin certain panels. Is that correct?

We've had that feedback in the past too. One thing we did was give the tabs a bit more padding so it would be harder to accidentally close, but seems like it's still happening for you. Let me ping @hxlnt who will be interested in hearing about this.

Additionally, 2 related things come to mind:

• You can re-open closed tabs easily by clicking the + button in the toolbar, or by using the command menu. You might already know this, but just making sure that you do, as we've heard feedback where people accidentally closed tools and could not find them again.
• We have an experiment at the moment that moves the tool tabs into an activity bar, which you might be interested in trying out. You might prefer this over the default toolbar. Give it a try if you want and let us know what you think. Learn more here.

[hxlnt]

Thanks for the feedback, @aadhilrf.

Following up on @captainbrosset's suggestion above, I'm curious if our experimental UI would be of interest to you. The close buttons are not present, and tools are pinned through the + menu. Additionally, the toolbar can be configured in a horizontal or vertical orientation, pictured below.

We've updated the feature and docs recently; take a look and let us know if this would address your concern!