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Flash player's support has ended of December 31 2020, and the plugin doesn't work anymore as of January 12 2021: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html# If you need to playback archived flash based content such as games, it would be wise to use either use flashpoint: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ or ruffle: https://ruffle.rs/
Flash
Flash was a web platform based on a VM installed in browsers. It had seen enormous uptake across the web for streaming video, games and dynamic content (before the popularity of AJAX).
Flash Players (browser plugins)
Player |
Description |
Free |
Gnash |
Gnash is a Free Flash movie player from GNU, |
yes |
Adobe Flash Player (formerly Macromedia Flash Player)No longer developed or supported. |
no |
|
Lightspark |
Lightspark is a flash player and browser plugin, |
yes |
For Chromium and Chrome. Owned and maintained by Google. It is newer than Adobe Flash Player.No longer developed or supported. |
no |
|
SwfDec |
swfdec supports most of v7 SWF. |
yes |
Shumway |
For Firefox. Created by Mozilla. A HTML5 replacement for Adobe Flash Player. How to install it. No longer developed. |
yes |
SWF tools
flasm - Assembler and disassembler for Flash (SWF) bytecode
swfmill - xml2swf and swf2xml processor.
Links
FlashPlayer - Adobe Flash Player info on Debian systems