2 Desired Improvements for the Flash Player 'about' web page

Hi all ...   I'm finally writing to request two improvements to this web page:
     http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
As a geek, I have long been annoyed that this web page does not keep its Flash object and does not show the Flash Player plugin version number in the same format as used in the detailed list of latest Flash Player versions for various web browers and operating systems.
This web page is mainly a tool for techs.  It can be improved greatly with these two changes (which I'm requesting on May 29, 2013):
1)  Near the top of the page, KEEP the flash animation object --
do NOT replace it with an advertisement in a few seconds.
     Keeping the Flash object there allows a knowledgeable user
to right-click on the object to see the Flash plugin version, which
is a way to confirm that the web page's displayed Flash Player
version is correct.
    Currently, the Flash object is replaced within a few seconds
with an advertisement for some other Adobe product.  This is
MOST ANNOYING.  As a tech, I'm specifically going to this web
page to (a) see that the Flash Player plugin I just installed is
working and/or (b) see what exact version it is.
    Again:   Keep the Flash object in place -- drop the code that
replaces that object with an advertisement.
2)  The displayed Flash Player version is formatted with commas,
as in   
                You have version
                11,7,700,202 installed
while ALL of the versions in the table below are formatted
(properly) with dots, as in 
                Player version
                11.7.700.202
    Make it easier for us mere humans to compare these version
numbers ... rework the HTML code to replace the commas with
dots.  (It's not rocket science.)
Thank you. 
    -- A geek and former software build & release
        engineer in Tacoma WA

Thanks, Chris.    That other web page does serve my needs better.  I've created a web link to it on my flash drive where I keep the latest Flash plugins for IE and non-IE web browsers.
I still feel that the "About" web page needs the two changes I suggested. 
Thanks also for pointing out that the box displaying the version of the installed Flash plugin is actually a Flash .SWF object .... since it is currently static (meaning, it has no animation whatsoever), I had no clue it was a Flash object.
So, I add a 3rd request:   have that version-display SWF object redone, to have a simple animation added and to have its code to display version revised to use periods (dots) in the version numbers.  If that object currently is intended and used in some other Adobe (European?) we page, create a new object for the English "About" page.   Or to re-use code, use the version-display object from the page at
      http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html
on the "About" page as well.
Again, as a techie pressed for time, I want a web page where I see the current version of the installed plugins and the versions of the latest releases, in the same formatting,
along with an animated flash object to prove that the Flash plugin in that web browser is working. 
I do not accept that the mostly-technical Flash "About" page needs to have marketing materials (an ad).   People go to the About page specifically to see the Flash version info and to prove that Flash is working.
Thanks again ....  - Ray

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