Brackets core contributor here... The reason for this is the webkit remote debugging API is used both by Brackets' "live preview" as well as by the developer to

Brackets core contributor here... The reason for this is the webkit remote debugging API is used both by Brackets' "live preview" as well as by the developer tools panel. The remote debugging API only allows one connection at a time, so one kicks the other off the connection. Here's the Chromium bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129539 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129539 And a related discussion thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-chrome-developer-tools/yILc8RYUz48 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-c...