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Recently I installed IE 11(previously IE 9) on my DEV Windows 7 machine. Whenever I press or open the F12 Developer tools, it reloads the page. Is there anyway to stop this behavior?

Thanks in advance :)

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If you go to the Emulation tool do you have any settings set? When F12 is opened with a persisted emulation setting such as document mode it has to reload that page to apply the setting. You can clear any settings with the 'Reset Emulation settings' you can also turn off the behavior by disabling 'Persist Emulation settings' within IE Developer Tools.

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    Thanks a lot. Disabling "Persist Emulation settings" fixed it :) – John Jul 24 '15 at 14:47
  • How to do this in chrome – Dragon Nov 09 '16 at 13:51
  • I can't get to emulation tool settings because they are in devtools which closes immediately when opened because the page refreshes – Eric Grotke Feb 09 '19 at 20:06
  • The settings are persisted in a `settings.json` file in: `C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\F12\emulation` and: `C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\F12\emulation` You should be able to delete those files to remove the persisted settings. – Andy Sterland Feb 24 '19 at 18:41