2011-05-09

IE8/IE9 users can directly delete Flash cookies

Adobe recently announced Flash Player 10.3 consolidating delete browsing history feature, which means that when you remove through a cookies,Flash Player will automatically clear Flash cookies, that is, Flash local shared objects (LSOs). IE8 and IE9 users can also use the delete browsing history simple and familiar with the operation to remove Flash LSOs, of course, if you are using the Flash version is 10.3(currently Flash 10.3 is still in RC candidate phase).

HTTP cookies and Flash cookies are used to store data locally. Some of the data in some cases, can lead to privacy concerns. Although IE8 and IE9 users already familiar with the delete browsing history feature, but in fact deleting IE browsing history features previously only covered the HTTP Cookies.

Project Manager Andy Zeigler explains the IE browser, IE users are accustomed to delete browsing history feature to delete their cookies. But since Flash is an additional component, it is not part of standard HTML content, so it cannot use the same method is deleted.

Zeigler said: “today, said Adobe Flash Player 10.3 integrated delete browsing history feature. When a user when you use this function to delete cookies, Flash Player will automatically clear Flash cookies. This change was commendable, it solves persistent privacy problems. ”

/Power house

Tags: cookies, delete, directly, Flash, IE8IE9, users

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