Vue-devtools: Vue devtools tab doesn't retain it's position when reordering Chrome devtools tabs

[LukeusMaximus]

Chrome devtools remember the position they were in if they are reordered by the user (via drag-drop). The Vue tab is the exception; it is always placed on the right end of the set of tabs.

[yyx990803]

That's not the case for me - it does retain position for me. Either way, this is a Chrome issue and cannot be fixed by vue-devtools itself.

[posva]

My bad, it happens in version 62 as well but I thought it was a bug because other extensions did retain their positions but Vue is the only one (among those extensions) that only appears when the app is a Vue app

[daktwigim]

I have a same issue. It worked well before, but it is not working now. And I think that there is a conflict with other chrome extensions. In my case, it is the 'adblock'.

[willvincent]

Chrome doesn't seem to persist position of tabs that are not _always_ visible.. Since the vue devtools tab only appears if the current page contains a vue app, its tab position does not persist.

There is a similar issue for the react extension that behaves the same way.

Could we not change the behavior of the vue devtools plugin to _always_ be present and simply display some sort of "Vue not present on the current page" message instead of omitting the tab in that case? That should be enough of a change to allow the tab order to persist... and seems like it'd be a pretty easy change to make. I'd submit a PR, but not familiar with chrome plugin dev to know where to look in the code.

[ortonomy]

It's been reported as a bug to Chrome team: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=771144 ... no movement on it though...