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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. [128] [129] Performance has later improved for the latter two, on Mac OS X with Flash Player 10.1, [130] and on Linux with Flash Player 11. [131]
Gnash is available both as a standalone player for desktop computers and embedded devices, as well as a plugin for the browsers still supporting NPAPI. [3] It is part of the GNU Project and is a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Flash Player. [4] It was developed from the gameswf project. [5]
Stage3D (codenamed Molehill [1]) is an Adobe Flash Player API for rendering interactive 3D graphics with GPU-acceleration, within Flash games and applications. Flash Player or AIR applications written in ActionScript 3 may use Stage3D to render 3D graphics, [ 2 ] and such applications run natively on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Apple iOS and ...
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The Flash Player, developed and distributed by Adobe Systems (which bought Macromedia), is a client application available in most dominant web browsers. It features support for vector and raster graphics , a scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of audio and video.