Flex profiler gives "Socket timeout " error. Why for?

Question

When trying to run the Flex Builder 3 profiler on any I don't get the profiler dialog window and then after a few seconds I get "Socket timeout" in the console window. Any ideas why it can't connect?

I've got the latest debug version of Flash player and have tried shutting off my firewall.
I'm running it on XP from the local drive, ie. not through localhost.

Thanks, Alex

Answer 1

It looks like the browser (Firefox in my case) has to be shutdown before the profiler is started. Step 1. in the livedocs even says this -- wish I had read it earlier. :)

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=profiler_3.html