While bug hunting I came across this very unusual bug. In a project that I am working on, I am using multiple unique instances of the LocalConnection object to communicate between an AS3 master and an AS2 slave. These LocalConnection instances use a random number to keep them unique, so each time the program is reloaded it makes a new LocalConnection instance. After refreshing the browser exactly 8 times the LocalConnection object stops sending out messages. I remember reading about an 8 connection limit somewhere, but I didn’t connect the dots until right now. These dots suck to connect. Read more …