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Adobe Flash Player
Sign in to saveAlso known as Macromedia Flash Player, flash, Flash Player
deprecated browser extension software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio
Key facts
- Original authors
- FutureWave , Macromedia
- Developers
- Adobe , Zhongcheng, Harman
- Initial release
- January 1, 1996 ; 30 years ago ( 1996-01-01 )
- Windows macos china specific variant
- Windows, macOS ( China-specific variant ) 34.0.0.376 / March 17, 2026 ; 2 months ago ( 2026-03-17 )
- Windows macos linux harman enterprise va
- 50.x / N/A
- Windows macos adobe animate component va
- 35.0.0.204 / July 4, 2022 ; 3 years ago ( 2022-07-04 )
- Linux china specific variant
- 34.0.0.137 / April 13, 2021 ; 5 years ago ( 2021-04-13 )
- Windows macos linux chromeos global vari
- 32.0.0.465 / December 8, 2020 ; 5 years ago ( 2020-12-08 )
- Internet explorer 11 and edge legacy emb
- 32.0.0.445 / October 13, 2020 ; 5 years ago ( 2020-10-13 )
- Android 4 0 x
- 11.1.115.81 / September 10, 2013 ; 12 years ago ( 2013-09-10 )
- Android 2 x and 3 x
- 11.1.111.73 / September 10, 2013 ; 12 years ago ( 2013-09-10 )
- Solaris
- 11.2.202.223 / March 28, 2012 ; 14 years ago ( 2012-03-28 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Preview release(s) [±]
Written inActionScript Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Solaris, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Android, Pocket PC PlatformWeb browsers and ActiveX-based software Available inAfrikaans, Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Telugu, Turkish, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yiddish, and Zulu TypeRuntime system and browser extension LicenseFreeware Website Adobe Flash (archived)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adobe Flash Player” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.