Difference between revisions of "Adobe Flash Player"
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Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) or Adobe Flash Player is a large weight, runtime environment for multimedia platform development that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. It can be used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. | Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) or Adobe Flash Player is a large weight, runtime environment for multimedia platform development that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. It can be used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. | ||
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| + | Websites that heavily use Flash suffer from loss of web browser standard functionality. Some Flash designers use meta refreshes or other tricks to disable browser’s Back button. As the famous usability expert Jacob Nielsen says, ‘Back button is the second most important navigation element after hyperlinks’. | ||
== Lack of Security == | == Lack of Security == | ||
Revision as of 15:27, 19 January 2011
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) or Adobe Flash Player is a large weight, runtime environment for multimedia platform development that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. It can be used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages.
Criticisms of Adobe Flash
Websites that heavily use Flash suffer from loss of web browser standard functionality. Some Flash designers use meta refreshes or other tricks to disable browser’s Back button. As the famous usability expert Jacob Nielsen says, ‘Back button is the second most important navigation element after hyperlinks’.
Lack of Security
Adobe Flash seems to be vulnerable to an endless string of malware. Adobe products, especially FlashPlayer, Shockwave Player and Adobe (PDF) Reader, have had some serious security holes (vulnerabilities) that hackers that code viruses exploit to infect people's computers.
Adobe Flash malware also has the ability to be cross-platform, infecting everything from desktops to smartphones and anything else that runs Flash.
Get Adobe Flash and Reader without GetPlus in Firefox
To avoid the Adobe GetPlus DLM Vulnerability, you must be careful how you install or update the Adoble Flash Player plugin. Steps to avoid this spyware is covered on the Adobe GetPlus DLM Vulnerability page.
