Fiddler not capturing traffic from browsers

Question

I\'ve been using Fiddler for quite a while, but all of a sudden it no longer captures internet traffic. I\'m on Chrome 29 and Fiddler v4.4.5.1. I\'ve checked all filters a

Answer 1

I had the same issue with Firefox. The solution was to set the proxy settings to "system proxy settings". Fiddler can only capture traffic that goes through its proxy server. Capturing was stopped because a few days ago I was tinkering with the Firefox proxy settings for another project.

It follows that using Chrome you should also check the browser proxy settings in case of problems with capturing traffic with Fiddler.

Read more about this on the Fiddler site