Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
1 edit | reply to tao
Re: WMP11, Firefox, and IE - consumer advisory
That is a connection many might not make, but...
So viewing WMP files in Firefox writes to the history file for IE, unless WMP is set so that it doesn't save its view history. A setting that is clearly dispayed at first use for every user on the computer. Not too bad.
Outlook Express, IE, and WMP have a long history of shared data and settings.
Flash also has it's own history, not cleared by even IE7's perhaps misleading "also delete files and settings stored by add-ons" option. Perhaps it means "files and settings stored in IE by add-ons." Every Flash containing domain visited is stored in plain text in Flash's folder contained in the user's directory, nested about five or six layers deep. I haven't looked, but it may well be stored in the registry's HKCU too. Bastids! In comparison to WMP, I don't remember Flash ever giving me any options here, let alone tell me it does store it. |
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AB
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join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
| said by Millenniumle  :. . Every Flash containing domain visited is stored in plain text in Flash's folder contained in the user's directory, nested about five or six layers deep. I haven't looked, but it may well be stored in the registry's HKCU too. Bastids! In comparison to WMP, I don't remember Flash ever giving me any options here, let alone tell me it does store it. Correct.
You can always disallow 3rd-party content-- though that may also affect functionality.
I don't find it difficult to clean out those files in Macromedia's Docs & Settings folder about once a week, myself.
But you're right, they're not very up-front with their info.
Settings page is here:
»www.macromedia.com/support/docum···l#118539
And if you right-click on the Shockwave testing area, there are a couple of options there for that app, as well:
»www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ |
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tao
Chaos Impends
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join:2000-12-03
Lansing, MI
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If you look at the image I included, I do not have WMP 11 set to save its history. Never the less, it saves them in IE.
Even though Microsoft has declared this is done, I consider this to be a bug. You set an option in a program to not save history, the history should not be saved, otherwise the setting is quite pointless, and misleading. |
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Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
1 edit | I hadn't noticed that
I don't know why it's doing that. I have IE7, FF3 Beta2 (which should be irrelevent), WMP9, and XP Pro SP2. I just tried it, thanks for the excuse to check out some pRon, and it doesn't show up in in IE7's address bar or history. Perhaps a version 10 or just 11 issue, Vista?
Perhaps a setting in IE7 too. I have it's history set to 0 days. It would be nice if we could narrow this down. |
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tao
Chaos Impends
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Lansing, MI | XP SP2 is what I run using IE7 and WMP11. |
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Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
| Are the URL's showing up in WMP11's history too? I'm shooting a hunch that it is behaving more like IE's history which even when set to zero days always remembers the current day's history. Which brings the obvious question, are they stored for more than day? |
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