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 <o...@backspaces.net> 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. > > 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 >
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