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Flash Player Version Support

Adobe Flash Plugin Support

This report displays usage data for the Adobe Flash Player plugin. The report is broken down by the version of Flash that is supported. This is very important information for web developers and designers to consider when implementing Flash on web sites. This is due to the fact that there are discrepencies between support for various things like video, audio and other functionality between the different versions of Flash. We only list versions that have amassed at least 0.1% of the market share during the selected time period.
Overall Flash Player Support Total Avg Aug '09 Sep '09 Oct '09 Nov '09 Dec '09 Jan '10
Flash Support (all versions) 96.64% 97.38% 96.66% 97.11% 96.74% 96.44% 95.89%
Date Range Interval Chart Type Browser Operating System Search Engine Connection
Aug '09 - Jan '10 monthly 3D Pie All Browsers All Operating Systems All Search Engines All Connections

Flash Plugin Version Support

Report Drill-Downs

You may click any of the Flash Version results below to drill down to a more detailed report for that individual Flash Version.
You can also check "Explore" to view multiple Flash Versions at a time.
Explore Flash Version Total Avg Aug '09 Sep '09 Oct '09 Nov '09 Dec '09 Jan '10
Version 10x 84.25% 79.06% 80.98% 83.61% 85.34% 86.76% 87.52%
Version 9x 11.51% 17.30% 14.66% 12.59% 10.54% 8.88% 7.57%
--- Undetected 3.36% 2.62% 3.34% 2.89% 3.26% 3.56% 4.11%
Version 6x 0.44% 0.47% 0.48% 0.44% 0.44% 0.42% 0.44%
Version 8x 0.24% 0.31% 0.30% 0.26% 0.22% 0.19% 0.18%
Version 7x 0.20% 0.24% 0.23% 0.20% 0.19% 0.18% 0.17%
--- Other 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.01%
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And if you click through from that freebsd ports page, you get to an email from Adobe Support shown at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/96374 which explains "it is clearly stated on the End User License Agreement, the only authorized operating systems where you may download and install Flash Player" - in other words, you don't have a copyright license, which means you can't legally run it on FreeBSD.

slef 8/18/09 5:30PM

cchd, I believe there is a FreeBSD flash port here: http://www.freshports.org/www/linux-flashplugin9/

jolt 3/18/09 1:38PM

I've not been able to use Flash since Adobe took over Macromedia five years ago and delicensed it for FreeBSD machines. It was difficult when I looked at your site and it said I needed Flash to view the charts!

I suggest 85% of browsers have operational Flash, not the Macromedia-reported 98%.

cchd 3/17/09 8:12AM