Debugging flash with FlashFirebug

Hello All,
I'm reposting this from the Flash forum based on recommendations from the friendly folks there.
We're the developers of the open source FlashFirebug FireFox extension and would like to gauge opinions, critique and suggestions on improving the extension for future development. We thought there's no better place to do that than here where Flash/AS3 masterminds are found. This is the extension's homepage:
http://www.o-minds.com/products/flashfirebug
Thanks!

oh, my appologies. i thought the link was for the discussion. you're correct it would have been appropriate to comment here.
so, i'll start. i saw the op's message and installed flashfirebug. i didn't give it a fair run-through but i did test it. and while it may supply some info more useful than flashbug, i noticed objects were not being displayed with their instance names. after thinking about it, that was probably because i don't often assign a name to dynamically created objects. so, i was looking at flash default names without seeing their flash reference name. ie, something with reference name loader (and no name property) is listed as instanceXX which limits the amount of info gained. i could either change my coding habits or, is there some way to toggle reference names instead of instance names?

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