# Is Android debugging still working?

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-android-debugging-still-working/51681>\
**Category:** Developer Tools\
**Created:** [January 9, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-android-debugging-still-working/51681 "2020-01-09T16:45:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![juraj.masiar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/juraj.masiar/32/30587_2.png) [@juraj.masiar](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/juraj.masiar)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-android-debugging-still-working/51681/1 "2020-01-09T16:45:02Z")

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I’m trying to inspect a page in my Android Emulator but when I click the “Inspect” button it will open completely empty page with nothing to click on.  
Even though I can correctly connect to the Android, I see all the opened tabs with Inspect buttons. Also the blank page has a “good looking” URL:

```auto
about:devtools-toolbox?type=tab&id=6&remoteId=emulator-5554%7C%40org.mozilla.firefox_beta%2Ffirefox-debugger-socket-usb

```

It was working before, but some time ago it stopped working.

I’ve tried also with the `web-ext` tool to run my extension on Android but still I can’t inspect any page (including normal webpages).

I’ve tried Release and Beta versions on Android and I’ve tried to debug with Developer Edition and Nightly on desktop, but still doesn’t work.

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**Author:** ![jdescottes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jdescottes/32/22185_2.png) [@jdescottes](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jdescottes)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-android-debugging-still-working/51681/2 "2020-01-09T16:54:14Z")

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Hi!

Yes, remote debugging should still work fine 🙂

If you are trying to debug Firefox for Android on your emulator, be aware that it is based on Firefox ESR (v68), so you _need_ to connect to it from Firefox Desktop ESR68.

You can download Firefox ESR at [Download Firefox in English (US) and more than 90 other languages](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr)

Our backward compatibility policy only supports a gap of 2 versions. This means that Firefox for Android (aka Fennec) can only be debugged from: Firefox 68, Firefox 69 and Firefox 70. Since Firefox release channel is now Firefox 72, the only compatible release officially available is ESR68.

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**Author:** ![jdescottes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jdescottes/32/22185_2.png) [@jdescottes](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jdescottes)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-android-debugging-still-working/51681/3 "2020-01-09T17:03:53Z")

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I have just been reminded that Firefox 68 has by default an old version of about:debugging, which doesn’t support remote debugging.

In order to enable the new about:debugging on Firefox 68ESR, you need to go to about:config and set `devtools.aboutdebugging.new-enabled` to true.  
Or you could use WebIDE, which should still be bundled in Firefox 68.

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**Author:** ![juraj.masiar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/juraj.masiar/32/30587_2.png) [@juraj.masiar](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/juraj.masiar)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-android-debugging-still-working/51681/4 "2020-01-09T17:06:56Z")

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**Thanks!**  
I was just about to ask you that!  
I’ve just tested it and it works now 🙂

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**Author:** ![jdescottes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jdescottes/32/22185_2.png) [@jdescottes](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jdescottes)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/is-android-debugging-still-working/51681/5 "2020-01-09T17:37:26Z")

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Glad it works now, and thanks for updating us 🙂