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!colspan="8"|Desktop & NPAPI
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|Clean Flash Player
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Web}}
|34.0.0.289 (Windows, Mac)
34.0.0.137 (Linux)
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|Flash Player
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Web}}<ref group=N name=plugin>Web version requires a browser that supports NPAPI.</ref>
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20220331041116/https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html 32.0.0.465]
|{{~}} <ref group=N>Requires the Third-party software component to Access it.</ref> ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}} <ref group=N>Adobe versions discontinued. Harman versions are currently maintained for enterprise customers only.</ref> ||{{✓}}
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|[https://gitlab.com/cleanflash/installer Clean Flash Player]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Web}}<ref group=N name=plugin>Web version requires a browser that supports NPAPI.</ref>
|34.0.0.289 (Windows, Mac)<br />34.0.0.137 (Linux)
|{{~}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|[[Ruffle]]
====Desktop / NPAPI====
[[wikipedia:NPAPI|NPAPI]]—in case you don't remember—is an obsolete browser plugin system designed to allow for interactive web-page elements beyond what early versions of HTML could do on their own. While there were a bunch of different in-browser software platforms co-existing in the earlier days of the internet, NPAPI effectively existed only for the sake of SWF players once the format became properly dominant and pushed everything else out of the in-browser ecosystem. With the shrinking relevance of SWF in the late 2010s, the plugin system that the players relied on was increasingly seen as an ancient relic that modern browsers would be better off without. So, while Adobe was phasing out Flash Player in late 2020, NPAPI was also gradually being dropped by all the major browser vendors. It hasn't entirely disappeared (Naturally, some indie browser devs still maintain NPAPI in their own forks of stuff like Firefox and Chromium), but thereso it hasn's no denying its obsolescence these dayst entirely gone away.
;Flash Player
:The proprietary reference player, which Adobe stopped directly supporting at the end of 2020 and has since fully delisted from their website. The plugin version has a built-in kill-switch that was flipped in January 2021, so it's probably not much use even in browsers that still support NPAPI, but the desktop player version is still usable if you download it from an archived version of the Adobe website. Harman International is also [https://airsdk.harman.com/flashplayer maintaining an extended support version specifically for enterprise users].
:Despite the hard discontinuation and a lack of support for user-friendly features such as URL spoofing, Flash Player still remains by far the most capable desktop player for Flash games as of mid-2023. If a Flash game is listed in [[Flashpoint]], it almost certainly uses Flash Player to run the SWF.
;:Clean Flash Player
::A third-party effort that takes the still-active Zhongcheng/Flash.cn version of Flash Player and repacks it minus as much spyware and adware as the Clean Flash project can remove. This might be the better option if you're looking for an NPAPI player specifically.
;Lightspark
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