After Microsoft announced it was no longer support Silverlight, Netflix adopted HTML 5. Netflix and Amazon even used it for their streaming services. It was written to work with rich internet applications, and NBC used Silverlight to live stream video coverage of both the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. While Silverlight isn’t available any longer, there is definitely some takeaway from its existence. GNU Gnash’s last update was in 2012, which means some content may not get any support.

GNU Gnash will offer some support for both SWF Version 8 and 9 but not 10 at all. It will play SWF files but only up to version 7. The great thing about the GNU program is that it’s open source and free to use.

Standalone player for embedded devices and desktops.

Since it’s more than four years old, it could be problematic for a lot of Flash-based content. The current Lightspark version is 0.7.2, made public in 2013. Lightspark is an open source Flash Player, which is written in C/C++ and operates on Linux systems. When Google developers came up with Chrome 56, it no longer supported Flash Player.Īnd, it appears Apple is making the same move.

Alternative of adobe flash player