With the exception of the China-specific and enterprise supported variants, it was discontinued on December 31, 2020, its download page disappeared on January 2, 2021, and a built-in time bomb that blocks Flash content when expired on versions newer than 32.0.0.371 displays a static icon with an information page link starting from January 12, 2021.įlash 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 was created by Macromedia and has been developed and distributed by Adobe Systems since Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005. In addition, Flash Player can run from a web browser as a browser plug-in or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player is capable of viewing multimedia contents, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video. Adobe Flash Player (also called Shockwave Flash in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome) is computer software for content created on the Adobe Flash platform.

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