Last year when I was doing Facebook game development (and hating life) for a large, monstrous gaming company, we had a lot of trouble getting the Firefox Flash plug-in for FireBug to work correctly and show internal trace’s exceptions, etc. So, I never used it. This last Friday, while making a new Facebook Canvas game for a client, I was faced with needing to see my traces, etc outside of the IDE or Flash Develop.   So, I installed the new version, called FlashFireBug and it fucking rocks! It does everything I need from just as if I am in the IDE looking at the output window. I’m pretty sure you need the debug version of the Flash player to get it to work properly, but even  if that is the case, it certainly is worth the effort.

By Jeff Fulton