

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. Adobe stated in 2013 that more than 400 million out of over 1 billion connected desktops updated to new versions of Flash Player within six weeks of release. įlash Player once had a large user base, and was a common format for web games, animations, and graphical user interface (GUI) elements embedded in web pages. Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge Legacy, in Windows 8 and later, along with Google Chrome on all versions of Windows, came bundled with a sandboxed Adobe Flash plug-in. Flash Player supports vector graphics, 3D graphics, embedded audio, video and raster graphics, and a scripting language called ActionScript, which is based on ECMAScript (similar to JavaScript) and supports object-oriented code. Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome OS, Solaris, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Android, Pocket PCĬhinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Xhosa, Telugu, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Zulu, and Arabic Īdobe Flash Player End of Life ( EOL, original global variants)Īdobe Flash Player Harman official website (active, Harman enterprise variant)Īdobe Flash Player China official website (active, China-specific variant)įlash Player runs SWF files that can be created by Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Flash Builder or by third-party tools such as FlashDevelop. Internet Explorer 11 and Edge Legacy (Embedded - Windows 8 and later)ģ2.0.0.445 / Octo 23 months ago ( ) ġ1.1.115.81 / Septem 9 years ago ( ) ġ1.1.111.73 / Septem 9 years ago ( ) Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome OS (Global variant, excluding China)ģ2.0.0.465 / Decem 21 months ago ( )

Windows, macOS, Linux ( Harman enterprise variant)ģ4.0.0.137 / Ap 17 months ago ( )

▼ Adobe Flash Playerģ4.0.0.267 / Aug 47 days ago ( ) Quick facts: Original author(s), Developer(s), Initial rel.
