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While Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used Flash animation player today, it is also possible to find Shokwave animation being used to offer better performance than Flash in certain media rich environments.
Shockwave Player is also a plugin for several browsers, including Safari and Firefox, which lets you view multimedia content developed use with this technology, which is seen especially in web applications and games (for example, Habbo).
Generally, online resources that use Shockwave indicate so before displaying the content. If the web browser you are using is not able to install Shockwave Player: download this package, close the browser, and use the installer.