Adobe Flash Player is a client runtime that delivers high-quality content to your computer and it works with virtually all browsers out there. Flash Player remains a key element of the Internet and has now evolved to conquer every operating system, every browser, and every portable device, including mobile phones and tablets.

About Adobe Flash Player for Mac The Adobe Flash Player is a widely distributed proprietary multimedia and application player created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe after its acquisition. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Adobe Flash Player, written and distributed by Adobe, that uses vector and raster graphics, a native scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of video and audio. Strictly speaking, Adobe Flash is the authoring environment and Flash Player is the virtual machine used to run the Flash files, but in colloquial language these have become mixed: Flash can mean either the authoring environment, the player, or the application files. Flash Player has support for an embedded scripting language called ActionScript (AS), which is based on ECMAScript. Since its inception, ActionScript has matured from a script syntax without variables to one that supports object-oriented code, and may now be compared in capability to JavaScript (another ECMAScript-based scripting language). Adobe Flash Player Features • 3D effects • Create high-performance, real-time effects for cinematic experiences that quickly engage users.

• Advanced text support Updates.

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 750 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash Player enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users. • Immersive experiences with Flash video, content and applications with full-screen mode. • Low-bandwidth, high-quality video with advanced compression technology. • High-fidelity text using the advanced text rendering engine.

• Real-time dynamic effects with filters for Blur, DropShadow, Glow, Bevel, Gradient Glow, Gradient Bevel, Displacement Map, Convolution, and Color Matrix. • Innovative media compositions with 8-bit video alpha channels. • Blend modes, radial gradient, and stroke enhancements. • Additional image formats: GIF, Progressive JPEG, and PNG. Top new features in Flash Player Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level Stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps and gives framework developers classes of interactive experiences.

Native 64-bit support Flash Player can now take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux®, Mac OS, and Windows®. Multi-threaded video decoding Deliver live streaming and real-time interactive video with improved playback performance and increased frame rates of high bit rate content running on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Enhanced mouse controls and relative coordinates Create immersive, panoramic games for new classes of content, including first-person games that take advantage of infinite scrolling, mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, and right- and middle-click events. New Features • iOS Concurrency - Our popular desktop and Android feature, AIR Workers, is now making its debut on iOS!

We have added support on iOS devices so that you will be able to execute code in the background without interrupting your application’s main code. Your UI will remain responsive, enhancing the user experience. • Improved Stage3D Error Messages - We've added new Stage3D error codes to provide developers with additional debugging and error information. • New insertAt() and removeAt() Vector and Array APIs - With Flash Player and AIR 19, we have introduced two new APIs for element insertion or removal in Vector and Arrays. • Added ability to disable browser zoom factor scaling via HTML - In Flash Player 15, we added code to improve the resolution of Stage3D content when the browser's zoom factor (BZF) was changed. This was extended to the PPAPI and Windows XP/Vista/7 Active X control in Flash Player 18.