Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta

Cosimo · 8 Mar 2011 at 08:52

Another beta is upon us giving:

•Media Measurement
•Acoustic Echo Cancellation
•Integration with browser privacy control for local storage
•Native Control Panel
•Auto-Update Notification for Mac OS

More

You can download it from here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10-3.html

Azuse05 · 8 Mar 2011 at 09:04

Wait, does that mean adobe have finally given people a way to clear flash cookies without resorting to ccleaner/browser addons?

Cosimo · 8 Mar 2011 at 11:23

Azuse05 said:
Wait, does that mean adobe have finally given people a way to clear flash cookies without resorting to ccleaner/browser addons?

Yup:

Integration with browser privacy controls for managing local storage – Users now have a simpler way to clear local storage from the browser settings interface – similar to how users clear their browser cookies today. Flash Player 10.3 integrates control of local storage with the browser’s privacy settings in Mozilla Firefox 4, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and higher, and future releases of Apple Safari and Google Chrome.

But it's not there in IE, from the release notes:

Note 1: The integration with Internet Explorer browser’s privacy controls is not yet available in the first beta release. It will be enabled in the next beta update.

robinbredin · 8 Mar 2011 at 11:59

CNET has a good write up about it,

Adobe continues the Flash fight with 10.3 beta

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20040457-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

nightmare99 · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:04

Is this still 32 bit IE only then?

robinbredin · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:12

Also coming with Flash Player 11 will be 64-bit support, an update that follows the release of several 64-bit browsers--notably Apple's Safari.

There are talking that Flash 11 being 64 bit, so I would say that flash 10.3 beta is 32bit.

Azuse05 · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:50

Flash x64 beta has been around for months, adobe just never updated it.

nightmare99 · 8 Mar 2011 at 20:50

Yes I am running flash player square at the moment and it seems fine. I hope they have a release version at some point though (v11 as above ?)

Azuse05 · 9 Mar 2011 at 14:23

You know it just occurred to me that this isn't adobe being nice, flash cookies will fall under the same legislation that's forcing website cookie tracking to opt in. It's just adobe getting ready in the same way ff added "tell website I do not want to be tracked" option.

Cosimo · 1 Apr 2011 at 07:56

Beta 2 has arrived and integration with privacy controls of Internet Explorer 8 and higher has been added.:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10-3.html

Greenlizard0 · 1 Apr 2011 at 22:36

Having issues with the current one over its predecessor. Flash videos don't play after a while. Only a browser restart resolves this.

Totality · 3 Apr 2011 at 06:46

As much as I dislike Apple, I applaud them for trying to wipe out flash. Adobe should really try to get a proper regularly updated 64bit version going as it just makes them appear lazy and proves Apples point. It comes across as if they have a one man programmer team trying to do all the mobile versions and desktop versions.

Cosimo · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:07

RC 1 has arrived:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10-3.html

mrk · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:22

Totality said:
As much as I dislike Apple, I applaud them for trying to wipe out flash. Adobe should really try to get a proper regularly updated 64bit version going as it just makes them appear lazy and proves Apples point. It comes across as if they have a one man programmer team trying to do all the mobile versions and desktop versions.

This is a thread about browsers, where have Apple tried to wipe out Flash in the browser market? they certainly have not.

iPhones are a different topic, not for this topic anyway.