[osflash] linux flash player 9?

[Chris Allen]

On 1/22/07, Darren Cook <darren at dcook.org> wrote:
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> The latter is very irritating: is it working for anyone? What happens is
> it pops-up to say I don't have permission to connect (both debug and
> release players). When I click settings it opens up firefox with the
> settings window. But they are now already set to allow the directory I'm
> running from (and running it as file:// URL in firefox works). (I've
> also tried explicitly allowing the swf file as well.)
>


This is the standard Flash sandbox security model in Action. This would
happen to you on Window and Macintosh as well. It is extremely confusing to
the user to have this popup occur. There are ways around it though. Take a
look at these articles listed on Mike Chamber's blog:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2005/08/new_flash_8_pla.html



> What is curious is that firefox and the standalone player *are* sharing
> settings. E.g. I changed the allowed local storage space in the
> standalone player (by right-clicking and choosing settings) and the new
> limit shows up when doing the same in the firefox plugin. And vice versa.


It's all the same setting for the Flash player whether it's a browser plugin
or the stand alone player.

We were having security issues similar to this (and other ones as well like
cross-scripting limitations) with a standalone projector application. We
switched to ScreenweaverHX instead of a projector and things are working
smoothly now (it acts just like the Firefox plugin). We don't have to
support Linux, so I'm not sure if will work for you, as I don't know if
Screenweaver HX works on Linux yet.

Good luck.
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