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Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player is a computer software for using content created on the Adobe Flash platform, including viewing multimedia contents, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video

Features

Adobe Flash Player (labeled Shockwave Flash in Internet Explorer and Firefox) is computer software for using content created on the Adobe Flash platform, including viewing multimedia contents, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video. Flash Player can run from a web browser as a browser plug-in or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Flash Builder or by third party tools such as FlashDevelop. Flash Player supports vector graphics, 3D graphics, embedded audio, video and raster graphics, and a scripting language called ActionScript (based on ECMAScript).

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Platform

Social

System Requirements

#Minimum
1YUM, TAR.GZ, RPM and APT packages for NPAPI and PPAPI
2Latest versions of Firefox or Google Chrome
#Minimum
1Mac OS X v10.10 or later
2Latest versions of Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera
#Minimum
1Microsoft® Windows® XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows Vista® (32-bit), Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
2Latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera

Ratings

Aggregate
3.81 
 5

CNET2.5 
 5
based on 692 reviews
CNET4 
 5
based on professional's opinion
FileHippo8 
 10
based on 301 reviews
FileHippo8 
 10
based on 433 reviews
G2CROWD4.2 
 5
based on 357 reviews
Softonic7 
 10
based on 31655 reviews
Softonic6 
 10
based on 1173 reviews
Softonic7 
 10
based on 3595 reviews
Softpedia4.1 
 5
based on 13990 reviews
TechSpot4.4 
 5
based on 2390 reviews
TrustRadius7.7 
 10
based on 110 reviews
Uptodown4.7 
 5
based on 11 reviews

Developer

FutureWave Macromedia (OD), Adobe Inc

Written in

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Initial Release

01 January 1996

Repository

Adobe Flash Player being a proprietary software, its source code is not publicly hosted.

License

Proprietary, Freemium

Alternatives

Runtime System

No alternative software available under 'Runtime System' category.


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