Debug Flash Player is NOT showing error popups

Question

I have installed the debug flash player for my mac, as explained in various articles. The problem I have is that the player doesn't show the errors - which I as a tester need to see. Version check tells me that I have MAC 10,2,153,1 both in Chrome 11.0.696.71 and Firefox 4.0.1. In Chrome I have disabled the built-in Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin and enabled the debug plugin I installed. The only hint I have that something is wrong is that when I right-click on a flash content then the Debugger item is inactive in the context menu. As I have uninstalled and re-installed the plugin many times in the last months, I am really clueless now what the problem could be. I would be thankful for any hint.

Answer 1

Check your mm.cfg file for SuppressDebuggerExceptionDialogs=1 which suppresses the exception dialogs, as the name implies. I had this in my mm.cfg file and have no idea how it got there.

Setting the value to 0 fixed it.

On a Mac the mm.cfg files is at /Library/Application Support/Macromedia More info at

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=logging_04.html

http://www.senocular.com/?entry=475

http://jpauclair.net/mm-cfg-secrets/

Answer 2

There is also one issue with overriding SuppressDebuggerExceptionDialogs to 1. I had flashbug plugin installed in firefox and everytime firefox was restarted flashbug was assigning 1 to this option. after removing this plugin debugging started to work.

Answer 3

My debugger is working on a mac dev chrome (and I just installed it for the first time), but the Debugger item in the content menu is also "inactive", or grayed out. I don't think that's a sign it's anything right or wrong. Here, this is also how my chrome://plugin is setup: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/screenshot20110613at161.png/ and your version check link gives me a Debug Player: Yes, right below my player version and before OS details.

I can only bet it's something wrong with your specific chrome / flash installation (have you double checked the flash installed path?) or with chrome 11 and the new flash, since I'm using the 12.