Adobe Flash or Shockwave Player???

I-Robot

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I was having problems with "Shockwave player is not responding" -hanging plugin.
It was happening in both Firefox and Explorer. In Control Panel, I noticed both Adobe Flash Player and Shockwave Flash were installed. I did a "remove program" of Shockwave. This action deleted both Shockwave Flash and Shockwave for Director. The browser is not hanging anymore, but it is a bit slow on some pages. Does anyone have a recommendation about which player: Adobe Flash or Shockwave Flash is more relevant? I am guessing that I do not need them both?? And they are NOT the same thing?? Somewhat confused....

P.S. The Adobe flash version is 19.0 r 0
The Shockwave Player version was 12.21....
 

thteatie

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Flash is more common, if a site needs Shockwave it will tell you that it needs to be installed.
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