IEWatch Redux

Several folks chimed in on my post about IEWatch last week. I also submitted IEWatch a sales support request asking for a Firefox version, and they said that there are no current plans, but “We might consider writing a compatible version if we receive enough customer requests.”

One of the compelling aspects about IEWatch is that it puts the connection information right into your browser window. At the cost of serious screen real estate, but we all have large monitors now, don’t we? None of the alternatives presented in the comments do this: even the Live HTTP Headers plugin for Firefox opens a separate window. In that window it dumps all the request and response headers in a fairly disorganized fashion, giving the user both too much information and too little. IEWatch neatly organizes the request and response headers, content, cookies etc. in the tabs across the bottom of the browser window.

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