Adobe Flash Player icon
Adobe Flash Player icon

Adobe Flash Player

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Freeware enabling multimedia and rich Internet content through browsers, critical in early web video and interactivity. Discontinued by Adobe on Dec 2020 due to modern web standards like HTML5.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
Discontinued

In July 2017, Adobe announced that it would end support for Flash Player on December 31th 2020 and continued to encourage the use of open HTML5 standards in place of Flash: https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

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  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Portable
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Runtime Environment
  6.  Browser extension

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Adobe Flash Player information

  • Developed by

    Adobe
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5
  • Alternatives

    13 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about Adobe Flash Player, and it has gotten 206 likes

Adobe Flash Player was added to AlternativeTo by Kahlil88 on Apr 17, 2009 and this page was last updated Nov 29, 2024. Adobe Flash Player is sometimes referred to as Flash Player, Flash, Adobe Flash, Shockwave Flash.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Guest
  
Top positive commentDec 2, 2019

It was an engine too powerful to be understood. And with great power, powerful damage could be done. Too sad it was proprietary, too sad people based their anger on avoidable advertisement and phishing. Epic games were created with ActionScript, from the wackiest to the most polished out there... weightening few KB and running on potato computers. The golden age of web games is dead.

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jdarias
  
Top negative commentApr 12, 2012

Goooooddddd why on earth did you send us this piece of crap?? and there´s noo alternative on windows.... linux users at least have gnash... this thing gets even more crapier in each version.... it´s the antithesis of good software....

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jj123321

agrEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEd!!!!!

Reply written Sep 10, 2014

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John Fastman

Same heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere. And so switch to Linux and join the light side!

Reply written Jan 1, 2017

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tomyan112
  
ReviewOct 7, 2023

Since the Adobe Flash player has been discontinued, check out clean Flash Player maintained by darktohka if you need to use the flash player.

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Alfredo Villegas
CommentAug 22, 2021

I like Adobe Flash Player because I made interactive animations

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The Linux Maniac
  
ReviewFeb 16, 2021

I Don't Really Know How Adobe Flash Is Like So 3 Stars. . .

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Guest
  
Positive commentJan 6, 2021

it allows me to go to vegas world.com to play poker

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robyellow95
CommentAug 29, 2019

Well, isn't this awkward and inconvenient? What alternatives are there? I also heard that there is malware out there that looks to be legit Flash Player.

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What is Adobe Flash Player?

Adobe Flash Player (labeled Shockwave Flash in Internet Explorer and Firefox) was a freeware software for using content created on the Adobe Flash platform, including viewing multimedia, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming video and audio. Flash Player could be run from a web browser as a browser plug-in or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and has been developed and distributed by Adobe Systems since Adobe acquired Macromedia. On December 30, 2020, support for Flash was removed by Adobe.