While Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used Flash animation player today, it is also possible to find Shokwave animation being used to offer better performance than Flash in certain media rich environments.
Shockwave Player is also a plugin for several browsers, including Safari and Firefox, which lets you view multimedia content developed use with this technology, which is seen especially in web applications and games (for example, Habbo).
Generally, online resources that use Shockwave indicate so before displaying the content. If the web browser you are using is not able to install Shockwave Player: download this package, close the browser, and use the installer.
Shockwave Player is also a plugin for several browsers, including Safari and Firefox, which lets you view multimedia content developed use with this technology, which is seen especially in web applications and games (for example, Habbo).
Generally, online resources that use Shockwave indicate so before displaying the content. If the web browser you are using is not able to install Shockwave Player: download this package, close the browser, and use the installer.
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How to Enable Flash Player on Mac. This wikiHow shows you how to enable Flash Player on in Safari and Chrome for macOS. If you're using Safari, you'll need to download and install Adobe Flash Player from Adobe's website. Open VLC Player Drag and drop the SWF file into the VLC player application, or the VLC Dock icon, to open and play the SWF file on Mac You can also drag and drop the SWF file into the VLC playlist, which can be helpful if you have multiple SWF files you want to play or view. And in case you were wondering, VLC can also play FLV files too.