Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Officially Debuts With New Privacy Controls

[MacRumors]

Just over two months ago, Adobe released a beta version of Flash Player 10.3, which notably included new privacy controls and integration within System Preferences on the Mac OS X platform. Also included was an automatic update notification system for Mac OS X.

As announced by Adobe yesterday, Flash Player 10.3 has now officially launched and is available for download.

New features in Flash Player 10.3 include:

- Media measurement (desktop only) - Measuring video usage just got easier. Using Adobe SiteCatalyst with Flash Player 10.3, developers can implement video analytics for websites with as little as two lines of code for the first time. Media Measurement for Flash Player allows companies to get real-time, aggregated reporting of how their video content is distributed, what their audience reach is, and how much video is played. Mobile support will be available in an upcoming release.
- Acoustic echo cancellation (desktop only) - With Flash Player 10.3, developers can create real-time online collaboration experiences with high-quality audio for telephony, in-game voice chat, and group conferencing applications. Developers can take advantage of acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, voice activity detection, and automatic compensation for various microphone input levels. End users will be able to experience higher quality audio facilitating smoother conversation flow, without using a headset.
- Enhanced privacy protection - Flash Player 10.3 enables local storage clearing within browsers' privacy settings and streamlines the controls of the Flash Player privacy, security and storage settings within the local control panel of desktop OSes.
- Security enhancements including the support of auto-update notification for MacOS - See the Security Bulletin APSB11-12 for more details.

Flash Player 10.3 is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Android.

Article Link: Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Officially Debuts With New Privacy Controls

 

[montycat]

This is good. Any security update is always welcomed. This will start the whole Abode Flash player debate again.

 

[BryanLyle]

As easy as it is to bash Flash, each new version runs better and better on my 2010 Macbook Air.

 

[dustinsc]

As easy as it is to bash Flash, each new version runs better and better on my 2010 Macbook Air.

This is true of my MacBook Pro, but it running "better" is not the same is it running "well" or "smoothly" or "not crashing my browser once a day".

 

[theheadguy]

Previous MR threads stretch 50+ pages of pure Flash bashing. If this is such a dead, hated technology by so many here, why is a Flash update front page news?

 

[Consultant]

Media measurement = USER TRACKING?

 

[striker33]

Untill they improve Flash on Mac to a useable level, its pointless posting this as front page news.

I'll keep flash blocked and stick to YouTube5 thanks.

 

[JAT]

Great, will somebody please notify EVERY ****ING WEBSITE THAT USES FLASH ON THE INTERNET?

Thanks.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

"Don't knock till you try it" Everyone has.

 

[dethmaShine]

Previous MR threads stretch 50+ pages of pure Flash bashing. If this is such a dead, hated technology by so many here, why is a Flash update front page news?

Because it still a hot topic?

iPod was hated by almost everyone when it was released. MR still posted a lot about it. Why?

 

[Kissaragi]

Works fine for me, i haven't had a problem with flash for years.

 

[a.gomez]

Nice... seems to like my macbook air just fine (not that I had any problems before)

was happy how Flash ran on my Galaxy Tab already, but "bug fixes and security enhancements" always good

 

[deannnnn]

Does it run better? That's the only new feature I want.

 

[KnightWRX]

This is true of my MacBook Pro, but it running "better" is not the same is it running "well" or "smoothly" or "not crashing my browser once a day".

I think the problem is your browser then, because Chrome never crashes on me and Flash is turned on and used daily.

For anyone using Chrome btw, no need to go out of your way to get this, the update to Chrome 11 we received yesterday had this plugin upgrade included.

 

[Mattie Num Nums]

We have a lot of Flash sites in house (well developed) and I rarely have Flash crash (though it does spin my fans up.) Again, Flash isn't perfect but the developers are the real problem.

 

[ciTiger]

Flash still has a long way to go for me to like it... Anything that kills of my MBP's battery is a no go for me...

 

[rdowns]

Previous MR threads stretch 50+ pages of pure Flash bashing. If this is such a dead, hated technology by so many here, why is a Flash update front page news?

What does MacRumor's story selection have to do with whether of not Flash sucks?

 

[rpaloalto]

Just installed it. I'm glad Adobe allowed us the option to disable auto updates. I was concerned they might go the google update rout. I'm not to keen on how google chrome is always looking for updates even when i'm not using it.

As far as all the options 10.3 has, I think they were already available. You just had to control click inside a active flash window.

 

[Yamcha]

Glad to see an update for Flash, I know a lot of fanboys argue that we do not need flash, that totally depends on you, I personally don't use flash as much as I used too, but everyone I know depends on flash, they watch a lot of streaming videos online, and the vast majority of the sites that have these videos use flash..

 

[islesguy81]

hope this one doesn't cause Safari to crash

I've been using 10.6 and everytime i watched a video Safari crashed weird hope this version is better

 

[Dr McKay]

Flash still has a long way to go for me to like it... Anything that kills of my MBP's battery is a no go for me...

So I assume watching a movie on it is out of the question?

 

[KnightWRX]

I've been using 10.6 and everytime i watched a video Safari crashed weird hope this version is better

I'm beginning to suspect it's Safari who's poorly coded, why is it that everyone that suffers crash bugs in their browsers running Flash is using Safari ?

Or do people not know what a "crash" is ?

 

[lkrupp]

My Flash use...

About the only thing I use(d) Flash for was watching video clips on the major news websites. Recently, however, you have to sit through up to one full minute of advertising before you can watch the clip. Not for me. While I keep Flash on my Mac and will update to the new version I have to say I don't need Flash all that much on a day-to-day basis. Youtube works just fine with HTML5.

 

[lewis82]

I'm beginning to suspect it's Safari who's poorly coded, why is it that everyone that suffers crash bugs in their browsers running Flash is using Safari ?

Or do people not know what a "crash" is ?

I am absolutely sure the problem comes from Safari. Mind you, I'm using Aurora 5.0a2 (Firefox Alpha) and I don't have any problems with Flash (I'm using a beta version of Flash as well).

 

[KingCrimson]

Give me Silverlight or HTML5.