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Chrome DevTools now supports *individual* network request throttling!
— Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) January 11, 2026
Folks have been asking for this for years! DevTools now allows developers to simulate slow network conditions for specific requests rather than the entire page.
This helps in testing how a web application… pic.twitter.com/5Y9DclaTf4
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering https://t.co/uIJSBJdzVa < these are five crazy-relevant questions to ask of yourself and your team. @addyosmani then offers strong recommendations to consider.
— Richard Seroter (@rseroter) January 7, 2026