From LQWiki

A Flash player is a program that displays animations available in Flash Format (typically file names end with the letters .swf ). These programs run under the X Window System and are typically run as Browser Helper Applications.

Tips

• INSTALLATION NOTE: If you have Depth < 16 in your XF86Config-4,

then all the flash player plugins will crash and burn when you load a page containing flash. (True for Konqueror and Mozilla).

See also

• Flash Format