Chrome devtool console drawer showing automatically

Answer was found here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36159780/drawer-panel-keeps-showing-up-on-refresh

I had to:

  1. Uncheck "Enable JavaScript source maps"
  2. Uncheck "Enable CSS source maps"

in the devtools settings (F1 key while devtools is opened, or click the three dots button in the devtools window). It seems to be a bug in Chrome related to source maps.


I had accidentally enabled Open Devtools window and ... . Unchecking that fixed this issue for me.

option to disable