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Unexpected display of Local Storage pop-up screen.

Community Beginner ,
Jul 18, 2014 Jul 18, 2014

For many years now I have used a dictionary application (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary or SOED6) which is essentially a tool for displaying dictionary data on a monitor screen.

This application was run originally on a Pentium 4 under Windows XP, and more recently on an Intel Core i7 under Windows 8 and later under Windows 8.1. During the time it was running on the Pentium the then-current versions of Flash Player were installed and maintained. I only installed Flash Player (currently v 14.0.0.145) on my Windows 8.1 system about two to three weeks ago.

Two days ago I tried to run the SOED6 application, and found that it locked up as soon as the basic screen was displayed, with an Adobe Flash Player Settings message superimposed across the display (see below😞

AdobeFlashStorage.jpg

This was the first time I had ever seen this happen with the application. I cannot remember just when I had run it previously, but I feel reasonably confident that the change in behavior only happened after installing Flash Player.

The major immediate problem was that the settings screen did not respond as might be expected to the "Allow" button (it flickered briefly, but nothing further occurred). There was no response to the "Deny " button either . The "?" symbol did take me to a Flash Player Help page on my browser (which for the record is Firefox 30.0). After a few hours searching for information online I did manage to work out that I could use the Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager to reserve a local storage area before trying to run the application. This circumvented the problem, but leaves me with two questions:

1. Why has this display suddenly started popping up? (additional security feature?)

2. Given that the appearance of the display is a valid feature, why is it not responding to user input as it should do?

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LEGEND ,
Jul 18, 2014 Jul 18, 2014

I don't know the answer to your questions, but you can set storage settings permanently in the Flash Player Settings Manager.

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LEGEND ,
Jul 18, 2014 Jul 18, 2014

Sorry for my stupid reply; re-reading your post I saw that you already have done that.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 18, 2014 Jul 18, 2014
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Hi Pat. Thanks anyway for your interest.

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