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{{About|the player|an overview of the platform|Adobe Shockwave|"Shockwave Flash" (player)|Adobe Flash Player}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Adobe Shockwave Player
| logo = Adobe Shockwave Player logo.png
| screenshot =
| caption =
| author = [[Macromedia]]
| developer = [[Adobe Inc.]]
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| latest_release_version = 12.3.5.205 (Win)
| latest_release_date = {{Release date and age|2019|03|15}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/shockwave-end-of-life-faq.html |title=Adobe Shockwave Player |access-date=April 10, 2019 |date=April 10, 2019}}</ref>
| latest_preview_version =
| latest_preview_date =
| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows]], [[macOS]]
| platform = [[Web browsers]]
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| website = {{URL|https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/shockwave-end-of-life-faq.html}}
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'''Adobe Shockwave Player''' (formerly '''Macromedia Shockwave Player''', and also known as '''Shockwave for Director''') was a [[freeware]] [[software]] [[Plug-in (computing)|plug-in]] for viewing [[multimedia]] and [[
{{cite journal
| last = Elia | first = Eric
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Shockwave Player ran [[Adobe Shockwave|DCR files]] published by the [[Adobe Director]] environment. Shockwave Player supported [[raster graphics]], basic [[vector graphics]], [[
As of July 2011, a survey found that Flash Player had 99% market penetration in desktop browsers in "mature markets" (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), while Shockwave Player claimed only 41% in these markets.<ref name="Adobe">{{cite web
In February 2019, Adobe announced that Adobe Shockwave, including the Shockwave Player, would be discontinued in April 2019.<ref name=":0">{{
== History ==▼
{{Main|Adobe Shockwave#History}}▼
The Shockwave player was originally developed for the [[Netscape Navigator|Netscape browser]] by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin, [[Sarah Allen (software developer)|Sarah Allen]], and Ken Day, influenced by a previous plug-in that Macromedia had created for Microsoft's [[Blackbird (online platform)|Blackbird]]. Version 1.0 of Shockwave was released independent of Director 4 and its development schedule has coincided with the release of Director since version 5.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} Its version has since been tied to Director's, thus there were no Shockwave 2–4 releases.
;Shockwave 1: The Shockwave plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released in 1995, along with the stand-alone Afterburner utility to compress Director files for Shockwave playback. The first large-scale multimedia site to use Shockwave was Intel's 25th Anniversary of the Microprocessor.<ref>{{cite web
;Shockwave 5: Afterburner is integrated into the Director 5.0 authoring tool as an Xtra.
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;Shockwave 9:
;Shockwave 10: Last version to support [[
;Shockwave 11: Added support for [[Apple–Intel architecture|Intel-based Mac]]s.
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;Shockwave 12:
;Shockwave 12.1: It is supported by 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. It has content made from previous versions as well as Director MX 2004. From version 12.1.5.155 Shockwave is supported in both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.<ref>{{cite web
;Shockwave 12.2: Last update for macOS before discontinuation.
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;Shockwave 12.3: Last update before overall discontinuation.
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Shockwave was available as a plug-in for the [[classic Mac OS]], [[macOS]], and 32 bit [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] for most of its history. However, there was a notable break in support for the [[
Unlike Flash Player, Shockwave Player is not available for [[Linux]] or [[
In 2017, the authoring tool for Shockwave content, Adobe Director, was discontinued on February 1; and the following month, Shockwave Player for macOS was officially discontinued. In February 2019, Adobe announced that Shockwave Player would be officially discontinued and unsupported on Microsoft Windows, the last OS that supported the Shockwave Player, effective April 9, 2019.<ref name=":0" />
== Security ==
Some security experts advise users to uninstall Adobe Shockwave Player because "it bundles a component of Adobe Flash that is more than 15 months behind on security updates, and which can be used to backdoor virtually any computer running it", in the words of [[Brian Krebs]]. This opinion is based on research by Will Dormann, who goes on to say that Shockwave is architecturally flawed because it contains a separate version of the Flash runtime that is updated much less often than Flash itself.<ref>{{cite web
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In an attempt to raise its brand profile, all Macromedia players prefixed ''Shockwave'' to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was successful and helped establish [[Adobe Flash Player|Shockwave Flash]] as a multimedia plugin,{{
Macromedia also released a web browser plug-in for viewing [[Macromedia FreeHand]] files online. It was branded Macromedia Shockwave for FreeHand and displayed specially compressed .fhc Freehand files.<ref>{{cite book
|author1 = Perry Board
|author2 = Rick Luna
|author3 = Derek O'Dell
|title = Creating Shockwave Web Pages
|chapter = Chapter 20 - Shockwave for Freehand
|publisher = Que Corporation
|year = 1996
|isbn = 0-7897-0903-1
|url = http://www4.dogus.edu.tr/bim/bil_kay/pak_prog/shockwave/ch20.htm
|access-date = March 30, 2008
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080209162146/http://www4.dogus.edu.tr/bim/bil_kay/pak_prog/shockwave/ch20.htm
|archive-date = February 9, 2008
|url-status = dead
|df = mdy-all
}}</ref>
Later, with the acquisition of [[Macromedia]], Adobe Systems slowly began to [[Rebranding|rebrand]] all products related to Shockwave.{{clarify|date=May 2012}}
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* [https://www.adobe.com/support/general/ts/documents/sw_flash_differences.htm Adobe.com/Technote] [https://archive.today/20090624061756/http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/139/tn_13971.html Adobe.com/Technote using The Wayback Machine] - What's the difference between Shockwave and Flash? (dated 2004)
* [https://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-animation.htm How Stuff Works - The Difference Between Flash and Shockwave]
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[[Category:Discontinued Adobe software|Shockwave Player]]
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