johnvh.com

Jul 1, 2008 11:33 pm

Flashtracer for Firefox 3

If you're a Flash developer and have upgraded to Firefox 3, you've probably noticed that the Flashtracer extension hasn't been updated yet to support it. After a few minutes of exploring, I found a simple solution to get it to work again.

1. Find the Flashtracer install.rdf file,which is located in your Firefox profile folder. If you're on a Mac, it should be:

   /Users//Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles//extensions/{22832dda-1de6-4443-9ab5-d34214b03347}/install.rdf

2. Open the file in a text editor and change line 14:

   <em:maxVersion>3.0b3<em:maxVersion>

   to:

   <em:maxVersion>3.0.*<em:maxVersion>

That's it.... just a few characters in an xml file. Restart Firefox, and you should be able to launch Flashtracer again!