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Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) [10] is a discontinued [note 1] computer program for viewing multimedia content, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 does not have acoustic echo cancellation, unlike the VoIP offerings of Skype and Google Voice, making this and earlier versions of Flash less suitable for group calling or meetings. Flash Player 10.3 Beta incorporates acoustic echo cancellation.
Ruffle is a free and open source emulator for playing Adobe Flash (SWF) animation files. Following the deprecation and discontinuation of Adobe Flash Player in January 2021, some websites adopted Ruffle to allow users for continual viewing and interaction with legacy Flash Player content.
Due to the increasing popularity of HTML5 for games and animations, as well as the numerous security holes that had plagued Adobe's SWF player, Adobe declared its Flash player EOL on December 31, 2020. On January 12, 2021, it pushed an update to its Flash player that blocked all Flash content from running.
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Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, and Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content. [7] In February 2019, Adobe announced that Adobe Shockwave, including the Shockwave Player, would be discontinued in April 2019. [8] The final update for Adobe Shockwave Player was released on March 15, 2019.
On November 8, 2011, Adobe announced that it was ceasing development of the Flash Player plug-in for web browsers on mobile devices, and shifting its focus toward building tools to develop applications for mobile app stores. [20] [21] [22] In 2021, former Apple head of software engineering Scott Forstall said in a taped deposition in the Epic ...