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Note: Close all applications before you run the Shockwave Player uninstaller. Use the Add Or Remove Programs utility in the Windows Control Panel.

Retiring the Shockwave player for Windows is the last step in a multi-year process: Adobe Director, an authoring tool for Shockwave content, was discontinued on Februand the Shockwave player for macOS was discontinued on March 1, 2017. The welcome page of Adobes Shockwave website contains test content for this very purpose. The simplest way to test if Adobe Shockwave Player is working on your system is to navigate to a site which you know has Shockwave content.

Google have removed support for NPAPI, a framework on which the Shockwave Player is built.Īs a result, Shockwave cannot operate in Chrome, and has not been able to since Chrome 45. You may occasionally come across multimedia content that requires Shockwave Player, but such instances are becoming increasingly rare. Though it once boasted a 99 penetration of the Western market in 2011, many sites have moved over to Flash or HTML5. Shockwave Player displays web content that has been created by Adobe Director, including content made with previous versions and Director MX 2004. Unlike the Adobe Flash Player, the Adobe Shockwave Player is not commonly bundled with web browsers if needed it must be downloaded. Such content can be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed.