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===Comparisons===
;''Common aspects''
:''Pretty much all of the HTML5 emulators listed here are targeted mainly towards website operators who want to keep their Flash-based websites going even after the forced obsolescence of the in-browser Flash plugin. Therefore the emulators are mostly not really intended for personal use, however some of them (Ruffle, most notably) are officially available as browser addons using the WebExtension standard.''
;Adobe Flash Player
:The official closed-source implementation by Adobe, who discontinued it in 2020. The web version relies on [[wikipedia:NPAPI|NPAPI/PPAPI]], an obsolete in-browser plugin system that for many years only stuck around specifically because of this Flash plugin; when the plugin was officially dropped by Adobe, so too was the plugin system dropped by all the major browser vendors. The desktop player version is still available for download from the Adobe website's debug downloads section.
;Ruffle
;CheerpX for Flash
:A payware HTML5 emulation package which seems to work by running a binary Flash plugin inside an x86 emulator. CheerpX is marketed exclusively towards website operators and is clearly not intended for personal use. As of December 2021, this is the only emulator being endorsed in any way by Adobe or its partners (specifically, by Harman International [https://airsdk.harman.com/ on their Flash & AIR developers site]).
;Shumway
:A relatively very early HTML5 implementation. Developed rather actively for a few years, under Mozilla sponsorship, but ultimately abandoned in 2016before it could reach a usable beta state.
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