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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.
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.
In tests done by Ars Technica in 2008 and 2009, Adobe Flash Player performed better on Windows than Mac OS X and Linux with the same hardware. [122] [123] Performance has later improved for the latter two, on Mac OS X with Flash Player 10.1, [124] and on Linux with Flash Player 11. [125]
ActiveX is a deprecated software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web. [1]
While named after and mostly focused on Flash content, media using other discontinued web plugins are also preserved, including Shockwave, [18] Microsoft Silverlight, Java applets, and the Unity Web Player, [19] as well as software frameworks such as ActiveX. Other currently used web technologies are also preserved in Flashpoint, like HTML5. As ...
Internet Explorer 10 includes a built-in Adobe Flash Player. [33] Microsoft and Adobe worked together to ensure that the version of Adobe Flash included with Internet Explorer 10 does not drain the battery or impact performance in negative ways. [33] In the "Metro" version of Internet Explorer, only some of the features of Adobe Flash will be ...
The last version of the Adobe Flash Player ran on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, RIM, QNX and Google TV. Earlier versions ran on Android 2.2-4.0.x (Flash was released for 4.0, but Adobe discontinued support for Android 4.1 and higher. [61])
Adobe Flash Player (web browser plug-in) Windows, OS X, ChromeOS, Linux The most widely adopted RTMP client, which supports playback of audio and video streamed from RTMP servers. Gnash (web browser plug-in/media player) Windows, Linux An open source replacement for the Flash Player, intends to support RTMP streaming for Linux. [7] VLC media player