The Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia application created by Macromedia (now a division of Adobe Systems). Flash Player features support for both vector and raster graphics, along with a scripting language and bidirectional streaming of video and audio content. The player is a virtual machine that runs Flash files, which are often embedded in websites to present animations, games, GUIs, or other visual interestingness. If youre reading this website, you probably know all of this. What you might not know is that Flash sucks. It is the bane of the Internet, and it needs to go away.
Flash Player 8.5 has been upgraded to version 9 in response to the Flex 2.0 launch this summer. Flash Player 8.5 beta has been renamed Flash Player 9. Nothing else has changed, just the version number.