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Adobe's Shockwave Player is a free program that displays multimedia content created with Adobe Director. Shockwave Player is installed on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. With it, you can display advanced Web content such as video and games, presentations, advertising, and interactive materials. This free plug-in is compatible with most major Web browsers.
We downloaded and installed Shockwave Player. The installation wizard included an optional download of an unrelated program, but we declined it, and Shockwave Player installed normally. This simple plug-in is self-contained and requires no settings or options, though you can see if it's been installed and which version from your browser's plug-in manager. But how do you know it's even working? Adobe has the answer with its Test Adobe Shockwave Player tool. When you can see the animation displayed in the Web-based tool's box, your installation is complete.
When our installation was finished, we were able to click Create, to try Adobe Director; See, to access the Director and Shockwave Player Content Showcase; or About, to learn more about Shockwave Player. We clicked About to visit the plug-in's product page, which offers FAQs, licensing information, support and training, and other information, including samples of Director-created content to try in our Shockwave Player installation.
We browsed back and opened the content showcase, which offered many links to game developers and multimedia content providers that use Director and Shockwave Player. Some of the sample content we viewed tried to install toolbars and other unneeded software, so be aware.
There's no comparison between using Shockwave Player to display Director-created content and not using it, because you can't; like Flash, you need the plug-in to see the content. By the way, Shockwave Player displays content created with Adobe Director, while Flash Player displays content created with Adobe Flash Professional. While the content is similar, Director-created content is typically more performance-intensive and focused on gaming, 3D, and online entertainment, while Flash is more suitable for Web applications, online advertising, and animations.
Publisher's Description
From Adobe Systems:
Shockwave Player is a Web standard for powerful multimedia playback. The Shockwave Player allows you to view interactive Web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your Web browser.
Adobe Shockwave Player is in the Other Browser Add-ons & Plug-ins category of the Browsers section.
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"I can't download it!!!"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.8.638
Pros
I've had this on my other internet provider, then I didn't have an internet for 5 months. But it worked good on my last one because I like to do a lot of jigsaw puzzles, now I can't because I can't download it, why?
Cons
I can't download it!!
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"HAVEN'T TRIED IT YET"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.8.638
Pros
I CAN'T REALLY YELL UNTIL I TRY IT,CAN I?
Cons
I DON'T KNOW ,YET
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"Shockwave causes fuzzy and blurry characters"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.6.636
Pros
No pro's for me, as I can't read text on my monitor anymore
Cons
Advertisements with movements, which are powered by adobe shockwave, causes flurry and unreadable text om my LCD Dell screen.
When Shockwave is disabled in the browser, the problem disappears. -
"terrible -but stuck with it?"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.6.636
Pros
seems to be the only one out there
Cons
crashes & crashes & crashes & crashes ....................
Summary
really takes the fun out of the only fb game i play, thinking of not playing at all anymore, can 't seem to find another that will work
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"it keeps crashing on me"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.5.635
Pros
nice to play games with ,but it keeps crashing!
Cons
does not work right with some games
Summary
if you can please tell me why it keeps crashing on me and what i can do to fix that problem.
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"Great functionality, Constant crashes"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.5.635
Pros
Great concept, clearly serves a good cause.
Cons
Pre-alpha quality, extremely buggy.
Main cause for browser crashes. Luckily, Chrome's sandbox allows faster recovery.
Steve Jobs was right to exclude it from Safari on iOS. -
"Simply doesn't work"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.5.635
Pros
None.........
Cons
It constantly shows "Unresponsive...disable it?"
Summary
I uninstalled this Shockwave Flash player yesterday. Am now looking for another Shockwave Flash player. This Adobe player simply doesn't work and I am sick and tired of the "Unresponsive" messages.
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"good flash player"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629
Pros
nothing negatives
Cons
best shockwave
Summary
splendid shockwave
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"This version is constantly crashing and unresponsive"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629
Pros
There are no pros for this version, I had no problems with earlier versions, what did Adobe do to this newer version. In my opinion this version does not cut it for me.
Cons
Just plain don't like it when you just move your cursor around then screen goes blank, you get a window saying that shockwave player unresponsive, after a awhile of this you finally get tired of rebooting whatever you where working on and turn the computer off. Frustration sets in.
Summary
Shockwave Player 11 sorry to say doesn't cut it for me. Need to fix some serious problems here!!
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"Great, no more crashes!!!"
Version: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629
Pros
This up-grade runs smooth, fast, and so far has not crashed. I was pleased with it while playing games, and the games ran smoothly...
Cons
I still feel that the up-loads/down-loads, were too slow.
Summary
I continue to love this version...
Updated on Dec 6, 2011
