This is one of those things where you just get a tad lazy and forget to do; hence the title of this entry. Fiddler, like a lot of other tools (i.e. Search as an example), is generally good out of the box.
So while troubleshooting a particular item today where we were only interested in one response type, rather than going through the typical diarrhea of fiddler entries, I opted for filters. Along with the “Show only HTML” option in the Filters tab below, there is also a slew of other options to slice and dice that incoming traffic. This is one of the areas I enjoyed as the Fiddler builds progress.
If you’re looking just to ignore images (from say user generated content pages), you can just hit “Rules” –> “Hide Image Requests”.
Just like how traditional TV ad targeting is the lazy person’s way of doing targeted search ads (ok, so maybe that’s arguable), avoid laziness and target your fiddler sessions to what you really need. Anyway, that’s the back to basic of the day.