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Adobe Flash Player (Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Chrome) 64-bit v11.6.602.180 Stub installer for who knows what? The current 32-bit version of Flash Player is v16.0.0.305 which appears to work quite well on Win7x64, so if this download really does point to v11.6x its a version well-proven to have serious security flaws.

Is there a Ubuntu compatible version of the 'Adobe Shockwave Player?' I'm running Firefox and when I try to bring up one of my School's websites it says missing plugin. When I click on 'Install missing plug-in' it says none found, so when I click on manually install plug-in it takes me to Adobe Shockwave Player installation, but there is no ubuntu version to install??? On the Firefox plug-in finder service it says 'Unknown Plugin (application/x-director)

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The Shockwave player is only available for Windows. You can use mozplugger(a program that lets you 'embed' other programs in your web browser.) along with wine and windows version of firefox

• First, install the wine and mozplugger packages (from the software center).

• Now download and install the Windows version of Firefox . Download it from Mozilla's web site. Now double click it and install it .

• Run the windows version of firefox .

• Now go to a web site that requires Shockwave, and choose to get the missing plugin. Again, follow the on-screen instructions, and when the plugin has installed and is working, you may close Firefox.

• Now you need to configure mozplugger to use the Windows version of Firefox for Shockwave files. Press Alt + F2 and type:

  gksudo gedit

then open the /etc/mozpluggerrc file

Add the following two lines to the end of the file:

Now open a Terminal ( Ctrl + Alt + T ) and paste

Now run the native version of firefox and test the shockwave player by visting this site .

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Nope, there's no Shockwave for Linux. I suggest installing Firefox and Shockwave in WINE, that has worked for me in the past.

From Wikipedia:

Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux or Solaris despite intense lobbying efforts. However, the Shockwave Player can be installed on Linux with CrossOver or by running a Windows version of a supported browser in Wine (with varying degrees of success).

Try running it with CrossOver or Wine.

Install PlayOnLinux:

Install the windows version of firefox.

When the installation finishes, PlayOnLinux will ask if you wish to install additional plugins to firefox, select the shockwave plugin.

If you receive a 'Error - bad format' when trying to load a shockwave application, you will need to go to the Adobe Shockwave Test Page, right click anywhere over the image that displays the shockwave version and select 'Properties...', then uncheck 'Allow backwards compatibility'.

Shockwave has been dead for quite a few years now. The thing you're looking for is Adobe Flash Player (I presume) which can be found in the Ubuntu Software Center.

You can search for Adobe Flash Player and it should pop up. Press 'Install' and you're on your way.

Alternatively, use Chromium web browser - this works for sites which fail in Firefox.

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Adobe Shockwave Player (formerly Macromedia Shockwave Player, and also known as Shockwave for Director), was a freewaresoftwareplug-in for viewing multimedia and video games in web pages, content created on the Adobe Shockwave platform. Content is developed with Adobe Director and published on the Internet. Such content can be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. It was first developed by Macromedia and released in 1995; it was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.^[2]

Shockwave Player runs DCR files published by the Adobe Director environment. Shockwave Player supports raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo.^[3][4] Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com.^[5]

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.^[6] As of 2015, Flash Player is a suitable alternative to Shockwave Player, with its 3D rendering capabilities and object-oriented programming language. Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, and Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content.^[7]

History[edit]

The Shockwave player was originally developed for the Netscape browser by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin, Sarah Allen, and Ken Day, influenced by a previous plug-in that Macromedia had created for Microsoft's 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]} 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.^[8]

Shockwave 5

Afterburner is integrated into the Director 5.0 authoring tool as an Xtra.

Shockwave 6

Added support for Shockwave Audio (swa) which consisted of the emerging MP3 file format with some additional headers.

Shockwave 7

Added support for linked media including images and casts.

Added support for Shockwave Multiuser Server.

Shockwave 8.5

Added support for Intel's 3D technologies including rendering.

Shockwave 9

Shockwave 10

Last version to support Mac OS X 10.3 and lower, and Mac OS 9.

Shockwave 11

Added support for Intel-based Macs.

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.^[9]

Shockwave 12.2

Last update for macOS before discontinuation.

Shockwave 12.3

Last update before overall discontinuation.

Platform support[edit]

Shockwave was available as a plug-in for the classic Mac OS, macOS, and 32 bit Windows for most of its history. However, there was a notable break in support for the Macintosh between January 2006 (when Apple Inc. released Apple–Intel transition based on the Intel Core Duo) and March 2008 (when Adobe Systems released Shockwave 11, the first version to run natively on Intel Macs).

Unlike Flash Player, Shockwave Player is not available for Linux or Solaris despite intense lobbying efforts. However, the Shockwave Player can be installed on Linux with CrossOver (or by running a Windows version of a supported browser in Wine with varying degrees of success). It is also possible to use Shockwave Player in the native Linux version of Firefox by using the Pipelight plugin (which is based on a modified version of Wine).

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 effective April 9, 2019.^[10]

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Security[edit]

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.^[11] Additionally Krebs writes that 'Shockwave has several modules that don’t opt in to trivial exploit mitigation techniques built into Microsoft Windows, such as SafeSEH.'^[12][13]

Branding and name confusion[edit]

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 Shockwave Flash as a multimedia plugin,^{[citation needed]} Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave, and Macromedia Flash.

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.^[14]

Later, with the acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems slowly began to rebrand all products related to Shockwave.^{[clarification needed]}

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Adobe Shockwave Player'. April 10, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
2. ^Elia, Eric (1996). 'Macromedia unveils Shockwave and Director 5'. HyperMedia Communications. ISSN1060-7188. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
3. ^Macromedia Shockwave for Director User's Guide, Volume 1, New Riders Pub., January 1, 1996
4. ^Macromedia Shockwave for Director, Volume 1, Hayden Books, 1996
5. ^'Shockwave.com'. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
6. ^'Flash content reaches 99% of Internet viewers'. Adobe. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
7. ^https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/faq.html
8. ^'Intel's 25th Anniversary of the Microprocessor'. Archived from the original on January 3, 1997. Retrieved November 17, 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
9. ^'LANDESK Patch News Bulletin: Adobe has Released Shockwave Player Version 12.1.1.151(executable install) for Windows 24-APR-2014'. Landesk. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
10. ^'End of Life (EOL) for Adobe Shockwave'. helpx.adobe.com. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
11. ^Pauli, Darren (May 23, 2014). 'Shockwave shocker: Plugin includes un-patched version of Flash'. The Register. Archived from the original on May 23, 2014.
12. ^Krebs, Brian (May 21, 2014). 'Why You Should Ditch Adobe Shockwave'. Krebs on Security blog. Archived from the original on May 25, 2014.
13. ^Goodin, Dan (May 21, 2014). 'Adobe Shockwave bundles Flash that's 15 months behind on security fixes'. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on May 22, 2014.
14. ^Perry Board; Rick Luna; Derek O'Dell (1996). 'Chapter 20 - Shockwave for Freehand'. Creating Shockwave Web Pages. Que Corporation. ISBN0-7897-0903-1. Archived from the original on February 9, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2008.

External links[edit]

• Adobe.com/TechnoteAdobe.com/Technote using The Wayback Machine - What's the difference between Shockwave and Flash? (dated 2004)