Adobe Flash Player

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What is Flash Player?

The Adobe® Flash® Player runtime lets you effortlessly reach over 1.3 billion people across browsers and OS versions with no install — 11 times more people than the best-selling hardware game console.

Top new features in Flash Player

Stage 3D

Build stunning, blazing-fast cinematic 2D and 3D games. Use fully accelerated GPU rendering, which leverages the power of OpenGL and DirectX graphics.

Concurrency

Create high-performance, more responsive games and content using ActionScript® workers and shared ByteArray support. Share memory and leverage machine resources by offloading tasks to background workers that run concurrently.

Content protection

Deliver protected premium video content using Adobe Access, which supports a wide range of business models, including video on demand, live broadcast, HD rental, subscription, and electronic sell-through.

03/12/2015	Flash Runtime 17 and more!
02/23/2015	Feathers updates to 2.1.0
12/09/2014	Flash Runtime 16 Update – New PPAPI Installers and AIR news!
11/22/2014	Adobe AIR and Android 5.0