Chrome Developer Tools disabled on Mac

Question

I know questions on how to enable Chrome developer tools have been answered in the past but they are for Windows. I am on a Mac and the Developer Tools in grayed out and so is inspect element. How do I re-enable them on my mac?

Answer 1

Solution 1 - Reset Chrome's Flags

On chrome://flags press the Reset All button.

Solution 2 - Modify Chrome's Policies

On chrome://policy we can see Chrome's current policies.

If DeveloperToolsDisabled is set to true, quit Chrome and open Terminal, set:

defaults write com.google.Chrome DeveloperToolsDisabled -bool false

If DeveloperToolsAvailability is set to 2, quit Chrome and open Terminal, set:

defaults write com.google.Chrome DeveloperToolsAvailability -int 0

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