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Adobe Flash Player 10 debugger not working

I right-click in the browser window and select Debugger.  I get a window that says, Where is the debugger or host application running?  I select localhost and get, a connection to the Debugger or Profiler could not be established by Adobe Flash Player 10.  I then try again but this time with my IP and still get the same message.  Any ideas what the issue could be?
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If you want to use the debugger the easiest option would be to choose to debug from inside Flash/Flex (whatever you are building in). Because this starts an instance of the debugger in these programs and when your flash file is run it connects automatically to the debugger.
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Yes, that is true, but I still should be able to launch debugger from browser.
Yes, but the only other way to achieve this is through the command line debugger.

I don't know if you're using flash or flex but it's included in the Flex SDK in the flex_install_dir/bin folder.

It is called fdb.

type this for all the available commands:
fdb help

and this for a brief tutorial on how to use it:
fdb tutorial
I'm using flex 3.  Checked out the fdb and when I use run (project location), it sometimes launches a window (without the app playing) and sometimes nothing happens.  Don't see the usefulness of this, unless you are saying that one can only use the debugger in the browser if they have the fdb command line window running?  

Well the only ways I've seen and read about in adobes documentation is the debugger in flex builder and the command line debugger. I know there are 3rd party debugger you could buy and connect to but they are all different.

The only other thing the debugging version of flash player does for you apart from connect to the flex debuggers is popup error messages when they occur.

What more are you needing?
So when I right-click in a browser and selected the debugger option, what debugger is initiated?  I'm trying to figure out why the option is there and I can't get it to work.
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I do have FB3 and start it in debug mode, then open my project in the browser, right-click to select debugger and get the option to select localhost or enter an IP.  When I do either it says it cannot connect to Flash.  I know that I can run the debug in FB3, but the browser provides the option to debug there and why this isn't working for me is rather odd.
It won't work unless you have a debugger started!
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Thanks for your patience.  I appreciate the info!
Here is a 3rd party debugger that I had recommended to me yesterday.

http://demonsterdebugger.com/

I have not used it.