Tag Archives: Firefox

HttpWatch Version 8.0 Released

January 01th, 2012 - 3:00PM

HttpWatch version 8.0 has been released and is now available for download. Any customers eligible for a free upgrade to HttpWatch Professional can install the latest version using their existing license key. If you’re not sure whether your license will work with version 8.0 go to Help->Check For Updates in HttpWatch and it will show you any available updates or upgrades. What’s New? Supports Firefox 10.0 HttpWatch 8.0 works with Mozilla Firefox 10.0: Windows 7 Taskbar Previews HttpWatch Studio supports Windows 7 taskbar previous making it easier to switch between log files: New ID and Connection ID Values The ID … Continue reading →

Poll: How Often Should New Firefox Versions Be Released?

September 09st, 2011 - 4:32PM

Earlier this year Mozilla shifted from releasing a new version every year or so, to once every six weeks. So in the previous four years we had five major new builds of Firefox, but this year we’ve already had versions 4, 5 and 6. Releasing often seems like a good idea; unless you’re in a controlled corporate environment or you develop extensions for a living. While changing to this new model, Mozilla largely gave up on backwards compatibility to speed up their development process. In the past many interfaces were said to be ‘frozen’ meaning that script based and native … Continue reading →

Just in Time Connection Reuse in Firefox 6

August 08th, 2011 - 5:16PM

Firefox 6 is almost ready for release and we have updated HttpWatch to work with the latest beta versions . While doing this we noticed some unexpected behavior in the way that it creates new connections. Normally, in HttpWatch you can see when a browser uses a new TCP connection by looking for the yellow Connect block in each request. You can also confirm this by adding a Client Port column to the main grid. Here’s screenshot from HttpWatch showing new client ports being used as new connections are made to the web server: In Firefox 6 we noticed that existing connections were sometimes … Continue reading →