Adobe Flash Player is the high performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones and devices.

Editors review:
Adobe Flash Playeris a way to view and create Designs, animations, rich web content. There is a version of Adobe Flash Player for you and your web browser. The first Flash player was Flash 1 and has now led into Flash 9 and Flash CS3 Professional. When finding out which version of Flash Player you need it is determined by what operating system you are running on.

Pros
There are a few Pros to the Adobe Flash Player; one being that you can view graphics on websites. Another pro to the player is that it makes it to where you can play your favorite video games, while being able to watch high definitions movies on your pc. Another pro The Adobe Flash Player updates on it’s own, and the file download size is pretty small. There are also no known bugs in the Adobe Flash Player. Oh I almost forgot the biggest Pro of all, it’s free.

Pros
There are a couple of major cons; one being that without the flash player you cannot view very much on the web. Another con is that a lot of ads are flash animations however this is to no fault of the Adobe Flash Player. You cannot get Adobe Flash Player or any other decent player without going through adobe, however since it is free and always available that is not a major problem.

Summary
Adobe Flash Player is an essential part of computer experience and since it is moving into handheld devices like PDA’s this may make it essential in the future as well. If you need to know which version of flash player you need simply go to the adobe website and download the flash player, it automatically detects what version you need. Also if you are just curious, then Windows using IE, FirefOx, Netscape, and Opera uses 9,0,45,0.

While Windows Legacy using IE, Firefox, Netscape, and Opera use 7,0,69,0. The Macintosh Legacy Operating Systems 9x using Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, and Safari 7,0,69,0. While the Macintosh OS X PowerPC using Firefox, Opera, and Safari use 9,0,45,0. Linux users you will need 9,0,31,0 for Firefox, and SeaMonkey, while Solaris needs 7,0,67,0..