Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/08/flash_10_point_3_beta/
Adobe unfurls Flash 10.3 beta
'Declouded' preferences and more
Posted in Software, 8th March 2011 20:14 GMT
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Adobe has released a beta of Flash Player 10.3 that – among other new niceties – includes a preferences pane for managing your storage, camera, playback, and other settings.
Previously, users needed to access an Adobe-hosted settings webpage [1] to control preferences for global and website privacy and storage, security, protected content playback, and peer-assisted networking.
As one commenter to Lifehacker's [2] report on the beta's availability put it: "So Adobe is declouding Flash! Yay!"
The Mac OS X version of the beta provides a four-tabbed preferences pane with controls for Storage, Camera and Mic, Playback, and Advanced:
In addition to the addition of "declouded" controls, the beta's release notes [3] detail new features such as easier media-measurement capabilities, acoustic echo cancellation and other audio improvements, and auto updates for Mac OS X.
You can download a copy of the Flash 10.3 beta – actually, beta 10.3.180.42, to be exact – here [4].
Links
- http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
- http://lifehacker.com/#!5779390/flash-103-beta-integrates-settings-into-your-local-control-panel
- http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer10-3/flashplayer10-3_b1_releasenotes.pdf
- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer10-3/