Flash has it's own version of cookies that not many people know about and are hard to delete. See http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/
If you want to delete them or stop them getting dropped on your computer you actually need to use a control panel on the Adobe site: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html#118539 -- Robert ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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What settings did you use at the adobe site? It wasn't very clear to
me what they all meant! And my first visit ended up having the settings program go nuts and I had to kill it. In the bigger picture, Javascript (including the flash libraries) is part of the evolution of the browser being the desktop. Apparently Javascript/Flash is the way the mic and camera are made available today. I *want* the mic and camera to be included, but would like it to be innocuous. This may not be possible. The W3C seems to have a lot of web standards, and the Javascript world is standardized under ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association). Couldn't they together specify the way the mic/camera are managed? In the even larger picture: it seems to me that all languages, not just Javascript, should have a web subset that falls under sandbox or similar standardization. Why not allow, for example, Python etc to be valid browser languages. And I don't mean as simple applet-like extensions/plugins. But something that can manage the DOM itself, that is literally integrated into the browser itself. And thus also able to deal with the mic/camera. Chrome is said to be looking into this. -- Owen On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: > Flash has it's own version of cookies that not many people know > about and are hard to delete. See http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/ > > If you want to delete them or stop them getting dropped on your > computer you actually need to use a control panel on the Adobe site: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html#118539 > > -- Robert ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
Not the friendliest control panel is it? I ended up turning off local storage (under Global Storage Settings) and setting other sites use of my cam and mic to "Always Ask" (under Global Privacy and Global Security Settings)
-- R On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote: What settings did you use at the adobe site? It wasn't very clear to me what they all meant! And my first visit ended up having the settings program go nuts and I had to kill it. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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