I like the convenience of running Pronto! in a browser, however I was pleasantly surprised by how well it runs in the Adobe Flash Player 9 Standalone Players (Projectors). I found a copy of the standalone player on Adobe's Flash Downloads web page. I tested Pronto with the Flash Player 9 build for Intel based Macs. While I have only used it for about one hour, it seems to run faster than it does in the browser (which is pretty fast already). Some browsers throttle plug-ins and limit system resources when there are multiple and/or tabbed windows being used. the Standalone Flash Player with Pronto made these issues disappear for me. If anyone tests this on another Operating System I would appreciate any comments confirming that this also works well on other Operating Systems.

There is one important change to the default Pronto URL that is required to open Pronto from the standalone player. The URL must end with /pronto.swf in order to explicitly tell the player what application to open. For example, if you sign up for a free Pronto account at http://talktoip.com, you can open Pronto with this URL in the Flash standalone Player:

http://talktoip.com/Pronto/pronto.swf

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