The Preview tab should have a very readable representation, even if the response tab doesn't. Is that right?

(Also try in canary as we've made some updates here)

Yes, the Preview Tab has a tree hierarchy representation which requires: 1.) clicking to take a deep dive into the tree 2.) isn't searchable 

I believe a pretty-print in response would be fast for quick look-overs...Imagine if the HTML pretty print similarly presented the dom in a tree hierarchy view?

So Canary introduced searching on the response tab, still see a huge value if I could pretty print that section. 

The JSON Preview View and XML Preview View should be searchable in the next week or two on Canary; the response tab was much easier to make searchable so I pushed it through first. I think when the patch hits it will solve this use case.

Please add yourself to this issue to get updates:  http://crbug.com/604829 

Thanks for your input!

Cool. Sounds like searching + preview pane will work out. Plus we'll merge these two panes so its less confusing.

I'll dupe this into 604829

thx for reporting, sam!

I hope that when these two panes are merged we aren't forced to click on the chevrons each time we want to dive into the contents of some json object in an xhr response. I would prefer a UI as plain text with pretty print, and popped open by default...with chevrons available to collapse contents when/if needed.