--- title: Remotely debugging Firefox for Android slug: Tools/Remote_Debugging/Firefox_for_Android translation_of: Tools/Remote_Debugging/Firefox_for_Android ---
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This guide explains how to use remote debugging to inspect or debug code running in Firefox for Android over USB.

Мы недавно сильно упростили процесс подключения инструментов разработки к Firefox для Android. Если вы работаете с Firefox Desktop 36 или новее, и Firefox для Android 35 или новее, то попробуйте новый процесс вместо этого.

This guide's split into two parts: the first part, "Prerequisites" covers stuff you only need to do once, while the second part, "Connecting", covers stuff you need to do each time you connect the device. 

Prerequisites

First, you'll need:

ADB setup

Next, you'll need to get the desktop and the Android device talking to each other using the adb command-line tool.

On the Android device

On the desktop

To check it worked, open up a command shell on the desktop and type:

adb devices

You should see some output like:

List of devices attached
51800F220F01564 device

(The long hex string will be different.)

If you do, then adb has found your device and you've successfully set up ADB.

Enable remote debugging

Next, you need to enable remote debugging on both the Android device and the desktop.

Firefox for Android 24 and earlier

To enable remote debugging on the device, you need to set the devtools.debugger.remote-enabled preference to true.

Go to about:config in Firefox for Android, type "devtools" into the search box and press the Search key. You'll see all the devtools preferences. Find the devtools.debugger.remote-enabled preference, and press "Toggle".

Firefox for Android 25 and later

On Firefox for Android 25 and later, there's a menu item to enable remote debugging. Open the menu, select "Settings", then "Developer tools" (on some Android devices you may need to select "More" to see the "Settings" option). Check the "Remote debugging" box:

The browser will display a notification reminding you to set up port forwarding, which we'll do later on.

On the desktop

On the desktop, remote debugging is enabled by a setting in the Toolbox. Open the Toolbox, click the "Settings" button in the toolbar, and check "Enable remote debugging" in the Settings tab:

If you're using a version of Firefox older than 27, you'll need to restart the browser for the setting to take effect.

You'll then see a new option in the Web Developer menu labeled "Connect...":

Connecting

Now you can connect the remote debugging tools to the device. First, attach the device to the desktop with a USB cable, if you haven't already.

On the desktop

For Firefox for Android 35 and later, go to a command prompt, and type:

adb forward tcp:6000 localfilesystem:/data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/firefox-debugger-socket

For Firefox for Android builds in other channels, the org.mozilla.firefox part should be changed to:

For Firefox for Android 34 and earlier, type:

adb forward tcp:6000 tcp:6000

(If you've changed the value the Android device uses for a debugging port, you'll need to adjust this accordingly.)

For Firefox OS, type:

adb forward tcp:6000 localfilesystem:/data/local/debugger-socket

You'll need to reissue this command each time you physically attach desktop and device with the USB cable.

Then go to the Web Developer menu on Firefox, and select "Connect...". You'll see a page that looks like this:

Unless you've changed the port numbers, choose 6000 and press the "Connect" button.

On the Android device

Next you'll see a dialog on the Android device asking you to confirm the connection:

Press "OK". The desktop waits for a few seconds to give you time to acknowledge this dialog: if it times out, just press "Connect" in the desktop dialog again.

On the desktop

Next, the desktop shows you a dialog that looks something like this:

This is asking whether you want to debug web content running in a browser tab, or to debug the browser code itself.

Let's choose to attach to the mozilla.org website. The Toolbox will open in its own window, attached to the Firefox for Android tab that's currently hosting mozilla.org:

The Toolbox, and the tools it hosts, work in just the same way as they do when attached to local content.