Flash Hanging on Publish Preview

Whenever I try to do an .html publish preview (File ->
Publish Preview -> HTML), Flash hangs.
I can publish the .html file correctly; and outside Flash, I
can open the .html file correctly. Only F12 hangs.
This happens even with a blank file.
Any ideas?

I suggest having a browser already open and minimized when
you go to hit F12. Sometimes Flash won't open a new browser unless
one is already open. At least, that's what I do. (I'm in the habit
of hitting F12 as well.)

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Hi I am creating frame by frame animation in photoshop.
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Hi guys,
I recently switched computers, going from a windows vista with Adobe flash cs5.5 v to windows 8.1 with Adobe flash cs6 v12.0.2.529.
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The problem I'm having is that the publish preview returns blank.
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Here's some sample code that illustrates the problem (this used to work fine in cs5.5):
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Cheers

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Explicitly including ExternalInterface rather than flash.external.*;. It should include it (and everything in the package) but I've had lookup issues with this before. So:
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
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Make sure your access toggle (network/local files) is correct to access your RSL.
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