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Use the settings on the Advanced panel to control
how Flash Player handles browsing data, updates, trusted locations,
and protected content.
Browsing data and settingsUse the Browsing data and settings section of the Advanced panel
to delete all Flash Player settings and local storage in all browsers
that you use on your computer.
Note: Delete All...deletes only Flash Player data saved by
your browsers. To completely remove all information about browsing
sessions from your computer, open each browser and clear its history.
See the individual browser’s documentation for further information.
Delete all...Displays a panel that lets you choose to delete some types
of Flash Player site data for all browsers you use on this computer.
You can: Delete all site data and settings
Check
this box to delete all local storage, camera, microphone, and peer-assisted
networking settings when you click Delete Data at the bottom
of the panel.
Note: Checking this box and clicking Delete Data deletes
data for all websites. To save data from some sites but delete it
from others, return to the Storage, Camera and Mic,
or Playback panel, click Storage, Camera and Mic or Playback settings by site,
and remove only those sites whose data you want to delete.
Delete all audio and video license files
Check this
box to delete all of the license files for content, such as movies
and music, that you have rented or purchased. Deleting the license
files prevents Flash Player from playing this protected audio or
video content, even if the content itself remains on your computer.
UpdatesAdobe releases new versions of Flash Player periodically.
Updates to Flash Player help ensure that Flash Player works properly
and can include changes to security or new product functionality.
Adobe recommends that you update to the latest version of Flash
Player whenever a new version is available, especially when a security
update is mentioned.
Use the Updates section of the Advanced tab to specify whether
to check for newer versions of Flash Player automatically, or to
check your installed version against the most recent release now.
Check NowClicking Check now takes you to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about, which
is a page on Adobe’s website that displays the version of Flash
Player on your computer. The page also displays a table that shows
the most current Flash Player version for each operating system
and browser combination. Finally, the page provides a link to the Player
Download Center, from which you can install a newer version
of the Player.
Developer toolsFor developers: Flash developers often work on SWF
or FLV content that is eventually deployed on the Internet. During
development of these applications, developers need to test while
the SWF or FLV content is stored locally rather than deployed on
a web server. For security, Flash Player blocks SWF and FLV content stored
locally from accessing the Internet, and it prevents SWF and FLV
content on the Internet from accessing your computer.
Accordingly, during local testing, Flash Player can show security
warnings that prevent the application from functioning as intended.
You can resolve this issue by using the Trusted Location Settings panel
to designate your own SWF or FLV content as trusted. You can designate
paths to individual files as trusted, or designate folders as trusted.
All files in a trusted folder and any of its subfolders are trusted
as well.
Trusted Location Settings...Use this tab to specify locations on your computer that
containing SWF or FLV content that you trust. Trusted content is
not subject to the security rules that prevent content from accessing
both the Internet and your local computer’s file system.
To specify trusted locations for developer testingOn the Advanced panel, under Developer Tools,
click Trusted location settings and then click Add.
Enter the location on your computer that contains the trusted
content, or click Browse files or Browse for folder to
locate the file or folder to trust. If you specify a folder instead
of a file, then all of its contents (including subfolders) become
trusted as well.
Click Confirm to add the domain, file, or folder to
the list of trusted locations.
Protected contentSome content on the Internet (such as movies and music)
requires that users first get content licenses from the content
provider before playing the content. These content licenses are
automatically downloaded to your computer, for example, when you
rent or purchase protected content. Flash Player saves these licenses on
your computer. Deleting the license files prevents Flash Player
from playing this protected audio or video content, even if the
content itself remains on your computer. This is called deauthorizing
your computer. If you decide to sell, donate, or dispose of your
computer, deauthorize it to prevent unauthorized users from playing
protected content later.
Be careful when resetting license files. When you reset license
files, Flash Player resets all existing license files for protected
content that plays on your computer in Flash Player. You cannot
access this content from this computer until you have downloaded
new licenses from your content provider.
Deauthorize this computer...Click this button to delete all of the license files for
content, such as movies and music, that you have rented or purchased.
Deauthorizing prevents Flash Player from playing this content, even
if the content itself remains on your computer.
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