Adobe Flash Player is computer software for viewing multimedia contents, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
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26 Facts About Flash Player
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Flash Player once had a large user base, and was a common format for web games, animations, and graphical user interface elements embedded in web pages.
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However, Flash Player became increasingly criticized for its performance, consumption of battery on mobile devices, the number of security vulnerabilities that had been discovered in the software, and its closed platform nature.
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was highly critical of Flash Player, having published an open letter detailing Apple's reasoning for not supporting Flash on its iOS device family.
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Flash Player was officially discontinued on 31 December 2020, and its download page was removed two days later.
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Adobe Flash Player is a runtime that executes and displays content from a provided SWF file, although it has no in-built features to modify the SWF file at runtime.
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Flash Player was used internally by the Adobe Integrated Runtime, to provide a cross-platform runtime environment for desktop applications and mobile applications.
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Flash Player included native support for many data formats, some of which can only be accessed through the ActionScript scripting interface.
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Flash Player is primarily a graphics and multimedia platform, and has supported raster graphics and vector graphics since its earliest version.
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Current versions of Flash Player are optimized to use hardware acceleration for video playback and 3D graphics rendering on many devices, including desktop computers.
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Also, Flash Player has been used on multiple mobile devices as a primary user interface renderer.
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In both methods, developers can access the full Flash Player set of functions, including text, vector graphics, bitmap graphics, video, audio, camera, microphone, and others.
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In 2011, Flash Player had emerged as the de facto standard for online video publishing on the desktop, with adaptive bitrate video streaming, DRM, and fullscreen support.
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Up until 2012, Flash Player 11 was available for the Android, although in June 2012, Google announced that Android 4.
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Flash Player stated it wants to enable Flash on NVIDIA Tegra, Texas Instruments OMAP 3, and Samsung ARMs.
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Some CPU emulators have been created for Flash Player, including Chip8, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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However, Flash Player content continues to be accessible on the web through emulators such as Ruffle, with varying degrees of compatibility and performance, although this is not endorsed by Adobe.
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China-specific variant of Flash Player will be supported beyond 2020, by a company known as Zhongcheng.
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One such project, "Clean Flash Player Installer", was served a DMCA takedown from Adobe in October 2021.
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In some browsers, prior Flash Player versions have had to be uninstalled before an updated version could be installed.
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Local storage in Flash Player allows websites to store non-executable data on a user's computer, such as authentication information, game high scores or web browser games, server-based session identifiers, site preferences, saved work, or temporary files.
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Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report states that a remote code execution in Adobe Reader and Flash Player was the second most attacked vulnerability in 2009.
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Steve Jobs criticized the security of Flash Player, noting that "Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009".
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Flash Player claimed that when one of Apple's Macintosh computers crashes, "more often than not" the cause can be attributed to Flash, and described Flash as "buggy".
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