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How to debug swf browser crashes

My swf sometimes crashes the browser (or just crashes the plugin, as chrome says).

How do I diagnose a bug? I am developing a flash player 9 using flex.

Things I tried:

  • Include log files so that I can see the output of trace ("..."). However, my log files and my swf end up in inconsistent termination terms.
  • Install the debug version of the flash player
  • I tried different browsers (today I am on vista and can reproduce the error in four browsers).

I hope there is a smooth stack trace from the plugin. Any suggestions?

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The flash plugin is likely to crash before your log files can be reset. The only thing I can recommend is to install Windows Debugging Tools .

Then print the command line (as administrator, if in Vista), and enter the following:

cd "%programfiles%\Debugging Tools for Windows" adplus -crash -pn iexplore.exe

(Obviously, change iexplore.exe to any browser you are working with.)

Now use the flex application in the browser until it works. This will create a crash dump in% programfiles% \ Debugging Tools for Windows \ Crash_Mode__Date_02-18-2009__Time_14-40-0202 (actual date will be used).

Now you can send this mini-dump (the smallest dmp file) to Adobe so that they can analyze it.

If you want to browse (native) call stacks in the hope of discovering what caused the problem, you can load windbg and load the dump file (File> Open Crash Dump). After it loads, enter the following command at the windbg command prompt and press enter:

 ~* kb 2000
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