Flash Player Advanced Settings Manager

During the last Macromedia FlashFocus 2004 event, when i showed the Flash Player Advanced Setting Panels, i noticed many people surprised like if they'd never seen it.

The Macromedia Flash Player Settings panels let you make decisions about privacy, data storage on your computer, security, notifications of updates, and the use of the camera and microphone installed on your computer. Use the links in the table of contents to learn how to make these decisions.

You can access the FPlayer Settings Manager open the flash player context menu (right-click on a swf file) and click the Advanced tab :

You can manage your settings using the following panels:

- To require that all websites ask your permission before using your camera or microphone, or to prevent any website from accessing your camera or microphone, you use the Global Privacy Settings Panel.
- To specify the amount of disk space that websites you haven't yet visited can use to store information on your computer, or to prevent websites you haven't yet visited from storing information on your computer, you use the Global Storage Settings Panel.
- To specify if certain websites are allowed to access information on other websites, you use the Global Security Settings Panel.
- To specify if and how often Flash Player should check for updated versions, you use the Global Notifications Settings Panel.
- To view or change the privacy settings for websites you have already visited, you use the Website Privacy Settings Panel.
- To view or change the storage settings for websites you have already visited, or to delete information that any or all websites have already stored on your computer, you use the Website Storage Settings Panel.

Personally i use this panel to automatically update Flash Player, setting the Notification Panel :

- If you want Macromedia to automatically notify you when a new version of Flash Player is available, select Notify Me When an Update Is Available. From the pop-up menu, select how frequently you want Flash Player to check for updates. The default selection is 30 days.
When an update is available, the Macromedia Flash Player icon appears in the system tray of your computer, near the clock. Click the icon and the Flash Player Update dialog box appears; it gives you the option to install now, install later, or open the Global Notification Settings panel to change your notification settings.

- If you don't want Macromedia to automatically notify you when a new version of Flash Player is available, deselect Notify Me When an Update Is Available.

Comments

[Umberto]

On this page you say that I can access the flash advanced settings by right clicking on the swf and choose settings then click on advanced. But when I do that I get the flash local settins then after clicking on advanced it sends me to the macromedia web site to a page called 'Flash Player Help'. Why can't I access the advanced settings?

http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/2004/09/flash_player_ad.html

[Marco Casario]

Umberto, when you click the Advanced button you go to the home page for the Flash Player settings (http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html), where you can access all advanced settings :
Global Privacy Settings Panel
Global Storage Settings Panel
Global Security Settings Panel
Global Notifications Settings Panel
Website Privacy Settings Panel
Website Storage Settings Panel

You can not direct connect to one of those panels !
bye

[mike]

Super Flash Player is a very easy-to-use flash player which not only reinforces functions provided by Macromedia Flash Player, but also has its own expanding that give you the opportunities to enjoy or collect flash and manage your flash movie files more conveniently.

http://www.yaodownload.com/audio-mp3/players/super-flash-player-manager/

[Paul Hart]

I have accessed the settings you discuss; I believe I have a different problem. At one time I was working on a project and was being hounded by notifications that a flash player update was available. After a number of these, I clicked on a choice (can't remember exactly what it said, but it was part of the notification) to deny access to Flash Player. I also deleted Flash Player, and later reloaded it. My list of programs shows Flash Player on the computer, but there is no file size associated with the listing. My problem seems to be a setting somewhere on my computer that will not allow access to Flash Player. For example, YouTube files will not run.

Is there a setting somewhere on my computer that will allow me to restore access to Flash Player?

Thanks,

Paul Hart

[Andrew Paul Simmons]

OK, so the other day this vital box would not appear in my application.

It turns out that the box has to be a specific size before it will show up!

A SWF size of no less than 214 x 137 pixels is required for the settings dialog box to appear!