Many times at the past, Adobe Flash Player's code, has been compromised by attackers in order to infect your computer with malicious software and for that reason, many web browser developers will stop to support it (Android and Apple mobile platform already doesn't support Flash Player). (Chrome is automatically updated with the new version of Flash Player. On Windows 7, Vista and XP OS, Flash Player was available for download, as an additional software for the operating system and as an extra plugin for every web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome).Īfter Windows 8 (and later Windows versions), the Flash Player comes bundled with the OS (for Internet Explorer and Edge) and Google Chrome already comes with Adobe Flash Player built-in, so users don't have to download the new versions of Flash Player.

Flash Player (aka 'Shockwave Flash' in Internet Explorer and Firefox), is a free application which is created from Adobe in order to play multimedia content, that was created with Adobe Flash software.

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