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I want to use Devel Themer to look at the "homepage" comment field, but it only shows up for anonymous users.
Is there anyway to see a page as a anonymous user would, and at the same time be logged in as an admin so that I can use the Devel Themer module?
No that is impossible.
What you could do is give access to devel for all users. You shouldn't be using devel in a live environment anyways, so just make sure you remove devel and revoke permissions before staging to production environment.
The way I do this is simply have a different browser open with the site open as anonymous - Logged in on Firefox, anonymous on Chrome, for example.
EDIT Whoops, I didn't fully understand the question on that quick read - hmm. Devel should have a tool that you can 'switch user' - at least I know there is a module for it. I wonder if 'anonymous' is one of those users?
It says it's buggy, but you could try the https://www.drupal.org/project/masquerade module, which allows you to view a site as a different user.
