Hey Mike,
Thanks for the response!
This is happening on Mac OS X with Flex Builder 2.0.1. The system's
default browser is set to Firefox. For the Flex debugging I'd like to
use Safari though. I've been running into some caching issues with
Firefox that I have documented in another post, thus the reason to use
Safari. Safari is at version 3.0.3.
Firefox and Safari are installed in their default locations
(Applications folder).
I've done a little bit more testing with the External Web Browser
settings in Preferences and it seems to me that Flex Builder is having
difficulties locating the Safari browser instance and is defaulting to
the system default browser for debugging, which in my case is Firefox.
This, even though the help documentation starts up in Safari when the
selection is set to use Safari as the external browser.
So, the question then would be what to specify for the Location and
Parameters settings in Edit External Web Browser when setting up the
Safari entry.
Jurgen
Mike Morearty wrote:
Hi Jurgen,
Carlos was correct -- changing the value in Window > Preferences >
General > Web Browser is how you change what browser Flex Builder uses
to debug. If that doesn't work for you, then something is going
wrong, but I am not aware of any bugs in that area.
There is no per-project setting that is in any way related to this.
The only per-project setting is, what URL is used when launching; but
this has no effect at all on our choice of which browser to use.
Just curious: What operating system are you on? What is your system
default browser, and what browser are you trying to force Flex Builder
to use? Is there anything nonstandard about how you installed any of
your browsers -- e.g. did you install Firefox into a nonstandard
location, or anything like that?
I can't really think of much that would be going wrong here, but with
more info, I might be able to take a guess.
- Mike Morearty
Adobe Flex Builder team
http://www.morearty.com/blog <http://www.morearty.com/blog>
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<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Jurgen Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks, but that doesn't seem to have an effect on the browser that the
> debugger uses. This seems to only affect the browser use for the help
> documentation.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something.
>
> Jurgen
>
> carlos m wrote:
> > In FB click on the Window >> Preferences >> General >> Web Browser.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Carlos
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Jurgen Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:06:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2.0.1: Change Browser for
Debugging
> >
> > I asked this yesterday, but I'm not sure if I missed any possible
> > responses to it. So here is another quick summary:
> >
> > How can we change the browser that FB uses for debugging?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jurgen
> >
> > Jurgen Beck wrote:
> >
> >> Even though there is a FB Preferences setting for using a browser
when
> >> Web pages are opened, this seems to mostly be targeting the
display of
> >> help documentation.
> >>
> >> If we need to change the specific browser we want to open when FB
starts
> >> a debugging process, it seems that the only way of doing this is by
> >> changing the system's default browser.
> >>
> >> Now, here is the strange part:
> >>
> >> When starting a new Flex project, it seems that the default
browser at
> >> that time gets stored into the project preferences somewhere. Even if
> >> the system default browser is being changed, the Flex project debug
> >> process seems to be starting the browser that was the default
browser at
> >> the time the project was created and not the current default browser.
> >>
> >> So, the question then is, how we can change the browser that a debug
> >> session for a specific project uses? I'd love to be able to set
this as
> >> a preference, either per project, or for Flex Builder in general.
> >>
> >> Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jurgen
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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