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! colspan="8"|Desktop / Plugin <ref group=N name=plugin>Plugin versions of these players require a browser that supports NPAPI/PPAPI.</ref>
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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://lightspark.github.io/ Lightspark]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|Web}}<ref group=N name=plugin/>
|[https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/releases 0.8.6.1]
|{{✗}} ||{{~}} [https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L365 *]||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}<small> (WIP)</small>
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116113151/http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki swfdec]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|Web}}<ref group=N name=plugin/>
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116113151/http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.8/swfdec-0.8.4.tar.gz 0.8.4]
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====Desktop / NPAPI====
[[wikipedia:NPAPI|NPAPI]]—in case you don't remember—is an obsolete browser plugin system that was 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 to co-exist existing in the earlier days of the internet, but it 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 (some indie browser devs still maintain NPAPI in their own forks of stuff like Firefox and Chromium), but there's no denying its obsolescence these days.
;Flash Player
:A desktop-only C++ player that went inactive in 2017, with the most recent stable release dating back to 2012. Probably not much reason to use it over newer versions of Lightspark, which seem to have mostly (if not entirely) superseded Gnash for compatibility.
;GameSWF:An ''extremely'' old C++ player, definitely one of the first serious efforts to reverse-engineer Flash Player into an open-source package. Inactive since 2009, though it did lay the foundations for Gnash. ;& swfdec:Another Two very early effort efforts to create a non-proprietary replacement replacements for the desktop Flash Player. it's actually pretty advanced for 2008-09, but it hasn't been active both inactive since2009 and very much obsolete nowadays. Gnash began as a fork of GameSWF.
====HTML5====
;swf2js<small> (web demos: [https://swf2js.com/free/index.html free], [https://swf2js.com/prod/index.html production])</small>
:An open-core player that uses a dynamic recompiler. The source-available "Free" version supports limited features, such as AS1, AS2 and ZLIB compression. In contrast, the payware "Production" version is better suited to newer Flash files using AS3 and LZMA compression features. Built on more traditional JavaScript code, so it pretty much always performs worse than any of the WebAssembly-based optionsplayers, sometimes noticeably so.
;Shumway
:A relatively early HTML5 player , actively developed under Mozilla sponsorship between 2012 and 2016 but ultimately then abandoned before reaching a usable beta state.
==Peripherals==
