Version History - HttpWatch 16.x

Version 16.0.7 - 28 Apr 2026

• Fixed: An 'IsWindow' error could occur when opening HttpWatch

Version 16.0.6 - 27 Apr 2026

• Fixed: A 'Log start time' error could occur when viewing the summary tab

Version 16.0.5 - 27 Apr 2026

• New: JavaScript cookie activity is now captured and displayed as events in the Console window
• New: The console window now has fold support for easier navigation
• New: Where possible, console entries have stack traces that link directly to source code
• New: Console entries have timestamps in the same format as the main request grid
• New: Console entries indicate which page was active when they were collected. The page link can be selected to view the page in the main request grid
• New: Console entries that relate to a network request now have a link that navigates to the matching entry in the main request grid
• New: Console output now supports console.table, console.time, console.count and other modern logging features
• New: Browser and operating system information is now extracted from HAR files and displayed in HttpWatch
• New: Warnings HW3009 and HW3010 added to detect incorrect content headers and invalid content types returned by servers
• New: Automatically detects incorrectly labelled content types (e.g. HTML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript, XML) and applies correct formatting
• New: Tighter integration with Chrome and Edge - activating a tab or HttpWatch window now brings the corresponding window to the foreground
• New: Recording activity is now clearly indicated with an animated icon in the browser toolbar
• New: The Cookies tab has a new JavaScript column that shows whether a cookie value was set from JavaScript. A clickable link navigates to the source code that set the cookie value and a context menu item allows navigation to the corresponding event in the Console window
• Improved: More accurate request timing and duration calculations, especially for redirected requests
• Improved: Ability to expand or collapse all console entries and control default expansion behaviour
• Improved: Warnings dialog is now resizable
• Improved: Window positioning can be reset by holding Shift when opening a window
• Improved: Title bar now displays both the page title and URL
• Improved: The extension now correctly redirects from protected chrome:// pages when running as a forced install, e.g. using the ExtensionInstallForceList
• Fixed: Issues where redirected requests could show incorrect or missing headers
• Fixed: Missing or incorrectly attributed network events in fast-loading scenarios
• Fixed: Ctrl+F4 now correctly closes the active document in HttpWatch Studio
• Changed: The log start time is now set when recording starts - not on the arrival of the first network or console event
• Changed: Updated Chrome and Edge extensions - version 16 or later is now required