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What is the difference between Adobe Flash Player plugin and Adobe Flash Player ActiveX?
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∙ 13y ago
The Flash Player plugin is designed to play embedded Flash content in websites, where as the ActiveX plugin is designed to run commands from either a movie clip or small elements on the site. Things like buttons, refreshing, links, popups, closing windows, etc. Security needs to be configured to allow certain scripts to run in the browser and any scripts present in a SWF run by the standalone player.
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