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nick72 Newbie
nick72
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Sep 17, 2009 5:52 AM

Firefox as Debugger Browser for Flex

I'm having trouble using Firefox as my debugging browser for a Flex project.

 

When I just click "Run" (i.e. no debug) it launches in Firefox. However, when I debug it launches in Internet Explorer.

 

In Settings > Web Browsers I have tried both "use system default browser" and "use" with the browser set to Firefox.

 

Can you let me know how I can lauch in debug mode with Firefox?

 

Thanks,

 

Nick

 

(I'm on Windows 2008 server and using IDEA 8.1)

Tags: flex, debug
Alexander Doroshko JetBrains
Alexander Doroshko
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Sep 17, 2009 12:01 PM in response to: nick72
Re: Firefox as Debugger Browser for Flex

Unfortunately it's the behavior of Flex debugger tool. Adobe Flash Player Debugger (fdb.exe) itself determines what browser to start. On Windows it calls following system command:
cmd /c ftype http
and uses returned value to launch debugged application.

If you launch *.swf as a file (not via URL or html wrapper) then Adobe Flash Player Debugger will choose how to launch it using following command:
cmd /c ftype ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash

 

This problem of Flex debugger is workarounded in latest IntelliJ IDEA (Maia) EAPs and now IDEA respects 'Web Browsers' settings. Download page is http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Maia+EAP . If you keep using IDEA 8.1.x then you should change ftype association manually - just run from command line:

cmd /c ftype http "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

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Alexander Doroshko JetBrains
Alexander Doroshko
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Sep 17, 2009 12:03 PM in response to: Alexander Doroshko
Re: Firefox as Debugger Browser for Flex

Respective issue (already fixed) is http://jetbrains.net/tracker/issue/IDEADEV-34701


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