Enabling Flash Debugger in Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a nice lit­tle browser, fast as hell, and it even bun­dles and updates its Flash plu­gin all by itself.

On the plus side, it means any­one run­ning Chrome will always have the most up-to-date ver­sion of Flash player so good news for Flash game devel­op­ers and web devel­op­ers alike.

On the down side how­ever, the Flash plu­gin it bun­dles itself with is the release build and you can’t use the Flash debug­ger with the release build. This caused a bit of pain for us when we tried to debug our Flash games in Chrome, but luck­ily we found a way to get around this in two sim­ple steps:

1. open a new tab and type in about:plugins

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2. you should see two entries for Shock­wave Flash, dis­able the one in C:\Users\xxx\AppData

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And viola!

 

P.S. you can down­load the Flash player and debug­ger here.

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10 Responses to “Enabling Flash Debugger in Google Chrome”

  1. Conqueror5000 says:
    July 15, 2010 at 5:35 am

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  2. theburningmonk says:
    July 15, 2010 at 10:17 am

    Hi, that’s fine, feel free to link or quote from my blog. Don’t have a twit­ter account though, so you might have to make do with this blog for now :-P

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  4. cheerfulboy says:
    July 17, 2010 at 2:16 am

    it was very inter­est­ing to read.
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    August 1, 2010 at 12:24 am

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  6. theburningmonk says:
    August 1, 2010 at 1:20 pm

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  7. Nick says:
    November 16, 2011 at 3:39 am

    This has been very help­ful, thanks

  8. sunny says:
    December 15, 2011 at 5:02 am

    Thanks a Ton Man!!

  9. bravebear says:
    February 24, 2012 at 2:47 am

    Mine seems to have been pre-disabled. Which ver­sion of the debug­ger are we sup­posed to install? There does not seem to be one for chrome.

    Plug-ins (18)
    Details
    Flash (2 files) — Ver­sion: 11,1,102,62
    Shock­wave Flash 11.1 r102
    Name: Shock­wave Flash
    Descrip­tion: Shock­wave Flash 11.1 r31
    Ver­sion: 11.1.31.203
    Loca­tion: C:\Users\bernie\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\PepperFlash\11.1.31.203\pepflashplayer.dll
    Type: PPAPI (out-of-process)
    Enable
    MIME types:
    MIME type Descrip­tion File exten­sions
    application/x-shockwave-flash Shock­wave Flash
    .swf
    application/futuresplash Shock­wave Flash
    .spl
    Name: Shock­wave Flash
    Descrip­tion: Shock­wave Flash 11.1 r102
    Ver­sion: 11,1,102,62
    Loca­tion: C:\Users\bernie\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\17.0.963.56\gcswf32.dll
    Type: NPAPI
    Dis­able
    MIME types:
    MIME type Descrip­tion File exten­sions
    application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie
    .swf
    application/futuresplash Future­S­plash movie
    .spl
    Disable

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