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Flash cookie control:

    alias playFlash='chmod 777 ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'

    alias clearFlash='rm -rf ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects/*'

    alias stopFlash='chmod 555 ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'

    alias showFlash='ls -l ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'

    alias .cFlash='cd ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/\#SharedObjects'

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You probably don't actually want to make files in your home dir world readable,writable, and executable [the chmod 777]

Good point. It's just a lazy habit on my laptop I guess.

Use +w +x +r (Writable/Exec/Readable by user) and -w -x -r instead of octal. It's shorter and more secure! (You can also prefix with u a or g, e.g. chmod a+x, for user, all, and group, respectively.)

Don't forget 'o', for others!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod

Why is it more secure? Because it is less error prone?

Thanks. For OSX users, those files are in ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/.

For Windows users just right click on the movie, settings, storage, put the slider on 0kb.

There's a new global settings option that probably does it on a global basis.

If you play Flash games you will probably find achievements/progress/etc don't save though.

That's why it's also nice to have a script which cleans out the flash storage. You can play the movies, etc, then just wipe everything out. I didn't realize that the local slider worked for their cookies. I thought you had to do that on their website.

Yeah, there's some other stuff coming for it soon too ... Adobe's started paying a bit of attention to it since the private browsing debacle.

I hope they fuck that stupid web settings manager* off next, that's probably the best thing they can do to make the settings/options easier to understand.

* http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...

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