Productivity: Debugging

Every December, Web Performance guru Stoyan Stefanov (@stoyanstefanov) corrals folks around the web performance community to collect insights and best practices on building faster websites and services.

One of Fiddler’s most-useful but least-used features is its ability to playback previously-captured web-traffic to debug website issues reported by customers “in the field.” In today’s post, I’ll explain the recent Fiddler improvements supporting this scenario.

One of the benefits of Telerik’s support of Fiddler is the opportunity to work with talented design professionals. We’ll be improving Fiddler’s User Interface from end-to-end to expose more of the tool’s power in a clear and elegant manner. Our first step is giving Fiddler a distinctive and professional logo, and here’s where you come in...

A new Fiddler Beta minor update was released this evening [.NET2 or .NET4]. This build contains a few long-awaited tweaks, bug fixes, and minor features. Read on for the summary of changes, and please let us know (Help > Send Feedback) in Fiddler if you find any problems! Web Sessions List Improvements The Web Sessions list on the left side of Fiddler shows each Session and provides entry points into most of Fiddler’s functionality. In the new version, a number of improvements have been made to this critical interface. Sorting Indicator Fiddler has always allowed sorting the Web ...

As with most Fiddler updates, this version also includes dozens of bug fixes and performance improvements, and upgrading is thus recommended for all users. Thanks for using Fiddler! As always, please let us know in Fiddler if you find any problems.