Debuging Flash in Firefox – Trace made easy
This week’s tutorial is on “How to debug” Flash in Firefox. As you noticed, standard trace statement will not work outside the Flash Output panel, unless you are using some exotic Firefox tool called Firefox tracer or something like that. Either way, I recommend Firebug (get it here) for a lot of reasons, which include html and css real time editing (to fix css problems and such) and some really cool script debug and error handling, however, we will only cover the console part.
First what is the Firebug console. It’s an output panel used to debug javascript (instead of using alert(‘something’) you can use console.log(‘something’) which will print out in a very nice manner without any annoying pop-up like messages.
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How to: create your own web browser!
On the market there are 5 major browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari, with their advantages and disadvantages. My personal opinion is that Firefox provides the best platform for both development (webdesign) and displaying web pages). Now comes the question: why do I want a custom web browser? From my work experience I’ve learned that having a custom browser would have an advantage, providing extra features and tools specific to that website. Here’s some advantages:
1) Store the site locally (including database content and synchronize it whenever needed)
2) Have custom elements overlayed by air.
3) Provided better security on data (credentials) transfer.
4) Peer to Peer page sharing 
P2P-Web(tm)