Talking about which, how do you check what version of flash you have in different browsers?  I know I can write 'about:plugins' in the address bar in Opera and Moz browsers, but Opera doesn't list the version number.  I have no idea how to find out in IE. 

That's handy even if "In some cases the version number reported in the movie above may not match the version of the installed Flash Player".  But there ought to be a way to tell directly.  They should have a gadget for that, like Java has. 

Yes, you can.  It takes to to a detection script at Adobe that tells you the exact number (that I guess can be wrong judging from the above).  What I mean is there should be an easy way so one could just look it up. 

QUOTE(jimlongo @ Sep 19 2006, 08:58 PM)

The test seems very reliable on a Mac . . .  you could also getinfo on the 2 files

Yes BootCamp works very well AFAIK, the downside with that currently is that one must boot into whichever OS one prefers. There is also Parallels software which runs WIndows in emulation, (and rumours are that BootCamp will do that in 10.5 (january or so). 

That will be very cool, OSX, BSD and WinXP at the same time with the ability to drag and drop between them. 

I was worried about getting too OT but then I just realized that this is the OT Forum! 

Yeah, well, about enabling Flash... I never seem to be able to disable it, which is something I want to do more often, because Flash seems to be used more than anything else for Really Annoying distractions. 

Can anyone explain - for example - why the Firefox developer's toolbar, which allows you to switch pretty much anything on or off, doesn't even mention Flash.  Are there some dirty tricks going on? 

No, I've never understood why it can't be easily disabled either.  I have a gadget for IE though. 

Never mind about _easily_: I'm using Firefox under Linux, and I can't remember if I explicitly installed a Flash player, but when I right-click on an irritating animation, I get a menu, the bottom item of which reads "About Macromedia Flash Player 7..." - and clicking this menu item has no disernible effect. 

Does anyone know if/how I can check for the Flash player in the Firefox menus.  Can't find it. 

(ISTR that in the old days with IE once Flash was in installed the only way to get rid of it was _extremely_ tedious.  Hard to believe this stuff isn't deliberate.)