Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices.

Installed on over 700 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash® Player enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users.
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Adobe to open source Flash Player scripting engine

Learn about a new open source project, hosted by the Mozilla Foundation, that uses code powering the ActionScript Virtual Machine.

Announcing Flash Player 9

Adobe Flash Player 9 leads a new generation of dynamic media and rich Internet applications

Flash Player in action

Goowy

Goowy.com uses Flash Player 8 to take the web-based mail client experience to a new level of features and fun.

Sony Pictures

Employing the new graphic effects like dynamic Glow and Blur filters in Flash Player 8, the Sony Pictures site for the upcoming film "Underworld: Evolution" creates an atmosphere as evocative as the film itself.

Developer resources

Flash architecture

Flash Player is a lightweight runtime for content and applications that meets security requirements and is built on a number of web standards including the ECMA-262 programming language.

White paper: Delivering enterprise applications, content, and communications with the Flash Platform (PDF, 417k)

Developer Centers

Flash Player Detection Kit

The Adobe Flash Player Detection Kit is a combination of software and techniques that enable web developers to deploy Flash content in such a way as to make the viewer's experience virtually seamless.

Adobe Flash Player