Monday, March 7, 2011

Switching Between Flash Players in Chrome Browser

When you have installed debug version of Flash Player in your browser (in this case - Google Chrome) you often have to deal with uncaught exception window. This is fine when you write your code and want to debug it, but when you just want to just surf in the web it could be very frustrating. So is there a good way to deal with that? Of course there is!

First you have to start Chrome and type about:plugins. In the menu that appeared click Details option and search for Flash section. You should find there two Flash Players - the one with higher priority and located in Documents and Settings (on Windows of course, I didn't check that on Linux or Mac) is built-in standard Flash Player. The other one, if you have installed it, is debug player. Now you can enable Flash Player of your choice - preferably standard for browsing web, and debug when you write your apps. That's all!

OK everything is great but after starting of Adobe Incubator Program (LINK) it will be good idea to switch between three type of Flash Players: standard, debug and incubator. This is unfortunately not possible, or maybe I just don't know how to do that. After installing incubator version of Flash Player switching to debug version is no longer possible, but you can switch between incubator and standard Flash Player in the same way that I described above. Furthermore, you can install incubator version when you have debug version installed, but it doesn't work in the other way because of the versions conflict. So when you want to get back to debug version you first have to uninstall incubator.

Last and least important thing - you may wonder why I use Chrome Browser. Well I think that it's fast, has nice interface that doesn't take too much space and crashes are far less common than in other browsers (and even when they appear it hangs only one tab).

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