Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player or Shockwave Flash is a piece of software that provides support for multimedia playback. Whether it's audio, video or gaming related, chances are that Flash Player is needed.

The player uses AMF, XML, JSON, SWF, MP3, FLV, PNG, JPEG and GIF formats. It supports vector and raster graphics making it ideal for any kind of content, as it also capable of streaming over HTTP, RTMP and TCP protocols.   Adobe Flash Player is compatible with all of the widely used Internet browsers out today, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer. Once a great client runtime to have for additional performance has now become a necessity for the great majority of Internet users.

Once installed, it doesn't use up a great deal of resources on your computer although that is debatable for systems that have a low-end hardware configuration. Adobe Flash Player is built to be backwards-compatible, meaning that it works with all operating systems, new and old.