# Simple new code causes crash in browser, not in Flash Player

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-new-code-causes-crash-in-browser-not-in-flash-player/327531>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 7, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-new-code-causes-crash-in-browser-not-in-flash-player/327531 "2012-03-07T16:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![wMattD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@wMattD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wMattD)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-new-code-causes-crash-in-browser-not-in-flash-player/327531/1 "2012-03-07T16:14:31Z")

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I added a pretty basic new function to the game I’m working on, and I thought it worked fine. All behavior was as expected, and I got no crashes when testing on my machine using FlashDevelop and the Flash Player. But if I open the .swf in Chrome directly or through the Kongregate test area, the game crashes 100% of the time that that function is called. I’m intensely confused by this behavior, and either Google has failed me or I’ve failed Google.

Here’s the new function in it’s entirety.

```auto
public function selectRandomDebater(event:Event = null):void
{
     trace("DebaterSelectScreen.randomDebater called");
     var selectedDebater:String;
            
     var randomNumber:int;
     randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 12);
            
     switch (randomNumber)
     {
          case (0):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Lincoln";
          }
          break;
                
          case (1):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Gandhi";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (2):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Hypatia";
          }
          break;
                
          case (3):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Murasaki";
          }
          break;
                
          case (4):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Voltaire";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (5):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Einstein";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (6):
          {
               selectedDebater = "MLKing";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (7):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Socrates";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (8):
          {
               selectedDebater = "BenitoJuarez";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (9):
          {
               selectedDebater = "Saladin";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (10):
          {
               selectedDebater = "JoanOfArc";
          }
          break;
                    
          case (11):
          {
               selectedDebater = "CaoCao";
          }
          break;        
     }            
            
     if (debater1Selectable == true && debaterBeingSelected == 1)
     {
          selectDebater(selectedDebater, 1);
     }
     else if (debater2Selectable == true && debaterBeingSelected == 2)
     {
          selectDebater(selectedDebater, 2);
     }
}

```

The selectDebater function is not new, and has never had a problem.