Flex Development on Linux Tip: Use Epiphany not Firefox
Comments: 3 - Date: September 12th, 2007 - Categories: Flex, Linux
I am usually on Linux when I develop Flex applications and I recently discovered a cool trick that makes development even easier. Use Epiphany as the browser you run / test your applications in instead of Firefox. Here’s a few reasons:
- If Epiphany crashes because your app goes crazy it doesn’t take your normal browser and all its sessions down with it.
- Epiphany uses inotify or a file watch and automatically refreshes when your application changes. It saves quite a bit of time to have the application already loaded before I can even switch to my browser.
- Flash works the same in Epiphany as it does in any other browser.
I hope others find this useful.
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