How to Permanently Disable Hardware Acceleration ?

Realy sad that there is no option to permanently disable Hardware Acceleration or at least to prevent it from getting enabled without user knowledge.

First of all, no new answer to the given one, just perhaps a detail.

It's for XP and Firefox 7b and v...183.5 but I think it's global.

V183.5 stores the information seemingly in cookies, sometimes called LSO-cookies, too, and if you use a cleaner, like CC... or the Firefox-Addon BETTER-PRIVACY, the LSO is deleted and information is gone. It seems not to be restored from a static default information pool or so, so the default is a hardware-check (I think) and this sets the option ON (as hardware is most of the time able to accelerate in general).

So you have to disable deletion of these LSOs. That would be no problem, if there is no private data stored in these LSOs. I dont think so, there IS private-data stored, so you loose. Adobe seems not to be a friend of privacy.

You have to protect  "C:\Dokuments...\YourName\Applicationdata\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys" (remember for XP and Firefox (Chrome default uses another directory!))  and subfolders.

If you want more privacy, then you have to write a script, that deletes this directory (will be no problem) and then copy a clean fresh content of this directory (with swtch off) from your clean-source, perhaps always when system is booted or shutdown (I do so).

Or you just hope, that Adobe will change behaviour or that flash will vanish.

Bye

That is not something that should happen; do you delete "Flash Player cookies" with some software, e.g. CCleaner?

Anyway, I think there will be some changes in that area in the new Flash Player that will be released next week.  (Sorry, I don't know the details.)