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Sometimes we need to check the console or the network transactions of a link that opens up in a new tab. By default, the Chrome developer tools are not opening in a new tab. So, by the time when we hit F12 and open the dev tools, part of the information we needed could be already gone.  There's a setting in dev tools where you can keep the dev tools open automatically in a new tab. To enable that, hit F12 and open up the dev tools. Click on the settings icon in the top right corner. In the Preferences section, scroll down to the bottom. You'll be able to find the option to Auto-open DevTools for popups. Select the checkbox and we're good to go!

This is a quick post about extracting SSL certificates from websites, we'll need this step for some of the future posts that I'm going to write about SSL and HTTPS stuff. In general, you may want to extract this whenever you are trying to use some tool (not a web browser) or a code to access this website. Then after extracting this, you will require to install this into your tool or framework. With this post, I'm just covering the extraction part. I'll use the Chrome browser since it is one of the common browsers that is being used. In my example, I'm going to extract the public certificate of  https://letsencrypt.org/ . (Let's Encrypt is one of the free Certificate Authority, probably I'll discuss this in one of the future posts.) 1. First, go to the website using the Chrome web browser. The website has to be in HTTPS. Otherwise, we don't want to do this in the first place. So, make sure your URL is starting with https://... 2. Click on th...