Revert of Revert of DevTools: allow storing devtools preferences on the browser side. [blink]

Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js

Index: Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js
diff --git a/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js b/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js
index 53b8d4415b31f2eae7851e23a4349530c77d296e..3e4c635a9d3662cab38121d29a3fd4cee4624496 100644
--- a/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js
+++ b/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js
@@ -1042,18 +1042,6 @@
         var name = pair.shift();
         Runtime._queryParamsObject[name] = pair.join("=");
     }
-
-    // Patch settings from the URL param (for tests).
-    var settingsParam = Runtime.queryParam("settings");
-    if (settingsParam) {
-        try {
-            var settings = JSON.parse(window.decodeURI(settingsParam));
-            for (var key in settings)
-                window.localStorage[key] = settings[key];
-        } catch(e) {
-            // Ignore malformed settings.
-        }
-    }
 })();}