Firefox Mobile – Monitor HTTP Headers

I just added support to Mobile Tools for monitoring HTTP headers in Firefox Mobile. I just wanted a way to look at some HTTP traffic to help debug some mobile websites. Screen space is limited on mobile devices, so we don’t get to have nice floating panels like in desktop Firefox’s web console or Firebug. Instead I opted for a slide out panel:

Tap the little tab and the panel slides out and back. Use the Pause and Clear buttons to manage the HTTP traffic. Tap an item in the list to expand the request, response and cookie details:

You can pan the list in any direction, as needed to see the contents. The panel tab takes up very little space while browsing, but you can also hide it completely using the add-on options:

In case you don’t know, Mobile Tools also adds support for viewing Page Info and Page Source too.