Every other week you hear of some ‘ critical vulnerability found in Adobe‘ news, which eventually does get patched. Should I uninstall Adobe Shockwave or Flash Player?īut there are security concerns involved if you have these two products installed on your computer. It bundles a component of Adobe Flash & displays web content that has been created using Adobe Director. Users of Adobe Shockwave Player have access to web content like dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications. Users of Adobe Flash Player gets access to rich web content, designs, animations, and application user interfaces. However, nowadays web browser development companies are trying to suppress the usage of those players since more websites are moving from Flash to HTML (For instance, YouTube). These two pieces of code have been a major part of almost all browsers to display rich media files, bring web applications, etc. There are Adobe test pages for each so you want to make sure that AFP succeeds and the other ASP fails to play.Flash and Shockwave from Adobe are two major elements of almost all standard web browsers that help users to view moving content such as online games, videos, presentations, advertisements, and more. If this is accurate can someone get Firefox to name things correctly, AND if article is accurate let this be a warning to others that they NOT use ASP, but as needed rely on AFP. My Firefox is working, but this confusion of calling things by their proper (or at least a unique name) seems crazy to me.

Mozilla Firefox users should note that the presence of the “Shockwave Flash” plugin listed in the Firefox Add-ons section denotes an installation of Adobe Flash Player plugin - not Adobe Shockwave Player. According to this security alert web article ASP is far less secure than AFP which itself isn't great.

Adobe various websites and now seemingly Firefox seem to continually confuse and obscure things regarding the two different Adobe Players (Adobe Flash Player AFP and Adobe Shockwave Player ASP).

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