Tip: Turn On This Chrome Dev Flag To Enable ‘Show Saved Copy’ Button And Load Cached Pages When Offline

Loading up a website without a connection established is a real shame. Instead of the information you were looking for, Chrome shows you a dinosaur and an error message. You’re left sitting there, out of luck.

But if there’s a cached version lying around, Chrome Dev can display that instead. There’s an experimental flag available that turns this feature on. Just look for the “Enable Show Saved Copy Button” that you can find at chrome://flags/#show-saved-copy.

Tip: Turn On This Chrome Dev Flag To Enable ‘Show Saved Copy’ Button And Load Cached Pages When Offline was written by the awesome team at Android Police.