This information applies to Adobe Flash Player on desktop and notebook computers. To change Flash Player settings on mobile devices, visit the. • • • • • • • • • Who uses this Settings Manager? Beginning with Flash Player 10.3, the Local Settings Manager supersedes this Online Settings Manager for managing global settings on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. The Local Settings Manager can be accessed in the Control Panel on Windows and in System Preferences on Mac. Users of other operating systems and earlier versions of Flash Player can continue to use the Online Settings Manager described here. To access the local Flash Player Settings Manager that is native to your operating system: • Windows: click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Flash Player • Macintosh: System Preferences (under Other) click Flash Player • Linux Gnome: System > Preferences > Adobe Flash Player • Linux KDE: System Settings > Adobe Flash Player To access Help for the local Settings Manager, click any of the individual Learn more.
Adobe Flash Player is a runtime that executes and displays content from a provided SWF file, although it has no in-built features to modify the SWF file at runtime. It can execute software written in the ActionScript programming language which enables the runtime manipulation of text, data, vector graphics, raster graphics, sound and.