Well after a little time and a tip from a friend I got the firefox flash tracer plug-in working(available here). You need to uninstall the regular player(uninstaller available here). Then install the debug player(available here). Assuming you have used the flash 9 debug player and have already installed the flash tracer from above then in the options of the flash trace panel in the ‘select output file’ enter the below location:
for windows xp:
C:Documents and Settings{user account}Application DataMacromediaFlash PlayerLogsflashlog.txt
other
If you are done all that you should be good to go.