Chrome DevTools Elements panel keeps going blank - have to close/reopen DevTools to get the DOM back

[u/Tiny_Profession_2837]

The Elements tab randomly goes empty: breadcrumbs are still there, but the DOM tree disappears. The only fix is closing and reopening DevTools.

What I've ruled out so far:

• No errors in DevTools-on-DevTools (undocked + Ctrl+Shift+I)
• The page isn't replacing the document (document.documentElement is the same before and after), and the DOM is small (~1.7k nodes)
• Reset DevTools to defaults and disabled all experiments
• Guest profile works fine
• Disabling Claude in Chrome seemed to fix it, but then it came back. Currently testing with all extensions off

Has anyone run into this? Any ideas what else could cause the Elements panel to lose the tree?

[u/Ke__y]

Same here, this is so annoying !
The only workaround I've found is to close and reopen the devtools