Alessandro posted a cool extension for Firefox that allows a developer to swap out different versions of the Adobe Flash Player without installers or browser restarts. It’s a great tool for testing player compatibility, and you’ll be able to see instantly if your Flash version-checking script works correctly. Best of all, it comes with every player all the way back to Flash 2! How’s that for overkill? 😉
After I installed the extension, I immediately added the Flash 9 debug player to the list. Until now, I specifically ran the release player on Firefox and the debug player in IE. I didn’t want to limit my performance when checking out the cool AS3 experiments everyone has been making. Now, I can easily switch to debug mode to catch bugs when I’m working on my own cool experiments.
By the way, if you’re looking for something a little more arcane (I always a found it little difficult to use), you might want to check out Flash Plugin Switcher. It works for both IE and Firefox.