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Ruffle is a free and open source emulator for playing Adobe Flash (SWF) animation files. Following the deprecation and discontinuation of Adobe Flash Player in January 2021, some websites adopted Ruffle to allow users for continual viewing and interaction with legacy Flash Player content.
Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) [10] is a discontinued [note 1] computer program for viewing multimedia content, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
Later, other Chromium-based browsers such as Opera and Vivaldi added PPAPI plugin support. In February 2012 Adobe Systems announced that future Linux versions of Adobe Flash Player would be provided only via PPAPI. The previous release, Flash Player 11.2, with NPAPI support, would receive security updates for five years. [42]
Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera. [11] [12] [13] The current edition of the browser is based on Chromium. Opera is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS (Safari WebKit engine). [14] [15] Two mobile versions are still active, called Opera Mobile [16] and Opera Mini.
While named after and mostly focused on Flash content, media using other discontinued web plugins are also preserved, including Shockwave, [18] Microsoft Silverlight, Java applets, and the Unity Web Player, [19] as well as software frameworks such as ActiveX. Other currently used web technologies are also preserved in Flashpoint, like HTML5. As ...
The Flash plugin is widely assumed, including by Adobe, [128] [129] to be destined to be phased out, [130] [131] which will leave HTML video as the only widely supported method to play video on the World Wide Web. Chrome, [132] [133] Firefox, [134] Safari, [135] and Edge, [136] have plans to make
In 2011, Adobe Flash Player 11 was released, and with it the first version of Stage3D, allowing GPU-accelerated 3D rendering for Flash applications and games on desktop platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. [64]
The Flash Player, developed and distributed by Adobe Systems (which bought Macromedia), is a client application available in most dominant web browsers. It features support for vector and raster graphics, a scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of audio and video.