Browser Plugins
Browser plugins are programs which extend your web browser by making it able to work with additional types of web content.
Popular Browser Plugins
Adobe Acrobat 
The Adobe Acrobat browser plugin enables you to view and print Adobe PDF files from within your web browser.
Macromedia Flash Player
Macromedia Flash Player is a browser plugin which enables you to view Macromedia Flash movies within your web browser.
Macromedia Shockwave Player
The Macromedia Shockwave Player enables your web browser to display Shockwave movies that are created with Macromedia Director.
Sun Java
The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) enables your computer to run applications and applets developed in the Java programming language.
Apple QuickTime
Apple QuickTime Player is a browser plugin for viewing video, audio, virtual reality and graphics files within your web browser.
RealNetworks RealPlayer
RealPlayer is a browser plugin that enables your web browser to play streaming RealAudio and RealVideo.
Microsoft Windows Media Player
Microsoft Windows Media Player is a browser plugin that plays streaming audio, video, animations, and multimedia presentations via your web browser.
- Adobe Flash Player for Mac
Adobe Flash Player is a software that must be installed on any machine that attempts to access Flash based content. Since Flash can be used for so many diverse things, not having Adobe Flash Player installed may prevent a user from accessing many different types of webpages and entire services. For example, the popular video [...]...
- How to Install Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player or simply “Flash Player” is an Adobe product that allows users to watch flash based content on the web. Flash allows websites to perform a wide variety of tasks that they would not be able to do via simple browser programming languages. For example, the popular video hosting website, YouTube, is run [...]...
- FLV Files
Over the last couple of years video has become a staple of the internet. Not only have computers become more powerful and equipped to handle video images, but many websites now rely on video as either a source of entertainment or a way to transmit information. One of the most popular video files found on [...]...
- Does Flash Need to Die?
Adobe recently announced that they are abandoning further development of the Flash Player for mobile devices. Instead they will focus on the development of native apps built with their AIR framework. This comes just a year and a half after late Steve Jobs’ famous “Thoughts on Flash” when he essentially locked Flash out of all [...]...
- Web Browser
A web browser is a software application that enables users to access the World Wide Web (WWW) or the Internet. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari are some examples of widely used web browsers. To do this, a web browser must provide the following capabilities: A web browser must be able [...]...




