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Adobe Flash Player. 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. It can run from a web browser as a ...
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] Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996. In principle, ActiveX is not dependent on Microsoft ...
Flashpoint Archive (formerly BlueMaxima's Flashpoint) is an archival and preservation project that allows browser games, web animations and other general rich web applications to be played in a secure format, after all major browsers removed native support for NPAPI / PPAPI plugins in the mid-to-late 2010s as well as the plugins' deprecation ...
Adobe Flash. Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinued [ note 1] multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich internet applications, desktop applications, mobile apps, mobile games, and embedded web browser video players.
Ruffle (software) 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.
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Gnash is a media player for playing SWF files. [ 2] 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]
The previous release, Flash Player 11.2, with NPAPI support, would receive security updates for five years. [41] In August 2016 Adobe announced that, contrary to their previous statement, it would again support the NPAPI Flash Player on Linux and keep releasing new versions of it.