Flex Testing : Don’t do it in your default browser
October 13th, 2007 . by polyGeekThis might seem rather obvious to most of you, it did to me once I thought about it, but don’t use your default browser for testing/debugging your Flex apps.
Why?
Because you’re likely to crash your browser. I know I do all the time.
To select which browser Flex Builder/Eclipse uses for testing and debugging open up your preferences: Window -> Perferences. Then in the left navigation panel open up General -> Web Browser.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who screws up the logic on their do-while loops or recursive function calls. So now while you’re waiting for the Flash player to timeout and let you stop the script you can browse through your unread RSS feeds in your default browser. :-)
Hi Dan,
Why don’t you use FireFox or Opera as the default then? They’ll just restore your browser session once something crashes? ;-)
@Jensa, I do you FireFox with Session Restore. The only problem is that it takes a while to restore my minimum of three default pages: two Gmail pages and Greader. Those three are a kick in the pants to browser startup times.
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