{"id":297,"date":"2011-05-18T05:50:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T05:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-05-19T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:19:08","slug":"adobe-updates-flash-player-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/05\/adobe-updates-flash-player-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe updates Flash player for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has released a <a title=\"adobe flash update 10.3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/features\/\" target=\"_blank\">critical update to its Flash Player<\/a> software (the browser plugin) that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better  way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/flashplayer_165x165.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300 alignright\" title=\"flashplayer_165x165\" src=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/flashplayer_165x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/flashplayer_165x165.jpg 165w, https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/flashplayer_165x165-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a>The Flash Player 10.3 update, released May 12, lets users manage  Flash cookies using their browser&#8217;s privacy settings or through a new, native OS control panel.<\/p>\n<p>And at long last, Mac OS users will finally get automatic software update notifications. It has been a disgrace that it took so long for Adobe to provide this, but we&#8217;re grateful nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this missing update notice functionality, I just found out about it today, May 18.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a title=\"adobe check flash version\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/software\/flash\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">check which version of Flash Player<\/a> you have installed at Adobe&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p>Annoyingly, the control panel does not use Sparkle to check for updates, but launches a new browser window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has released a critical update to its Flash Player software (the browser plugin) that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web. The Flash Player 10.3 update, released May 12, lets users manage Flash cookies using their browser&#8217;s privacy settings or through &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/05\/adobe-updates-flash-player-for-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adobe updates Flash player for Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-mac","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}