Debugging in Flash Revisited

I short while back I wrote about debugging in Flash and the many options available to receive messages via a web browser. My conclusion was send output to the Firebug plugin using Javascript. I have been using this method now for my projects long enough to notice it’s shortcomings. One is that the unused Debugger code stays inside the SWF (even when disabled), and the other is that it only works inside Firefox with Firebug.

I made another attempt to get the Flash Tracer plugin from Sephiroth to work and I was successful (turns out my User Settings folder at work is saved on the 486 down the hall). With a few tweeks to the mm.cfg file I even get warnings about Security issues:

ErrorReportingEnable=1
TraceOutputFileEnable=1
PolicyFileLog=1
PolicyFileLogAppend=1

Apart from the dreadfully slow performance, I think this is the simplest way to debug a Flash App from within the browser.