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Last updated 2 years ago

Discord's desktop client is built using the Electron framework. This means means you have access to Chrome Dev Tools. Before all you have to do to open the Developer Tools is press Ctrl + Shift + I as you would on a normal browser. But due to many users getting socially engineered into opening this and having their accounts compromised, the functionality has been disabled on Stable.

Enabling Developer Tools

The Dev Tools can be turned back on by settting the value of DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING on Discord's settings.json to true.

  1. Go to %appdata%\discord\ and open settings.json.

  2. On the settings file, set the value of the key DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING to true.

  3. Save the file and then restart Discord if it is already running.

If the key does not exist, then it should be added with a true value. .

On restart, Ctrl + Shift + I should now open Developer Tools again.

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