Shockwave Flash is the Adobe Flash player. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Managing+the+Flash+plugin The Adobe Shockwave Player is a different plugin previously known as "Shockwave for Director", so do not confuse the two plugins.

The Shockwave for Director plugin is hardly use these days, so you can consider to uninstall this plugin.

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Using+the+Shockwave+plugin+with+Firefox

Firefox needs to use exact same terminology as the supplier of the Plugin to avoid more confusion. We don't need ambiguity in an already mixed up situation.

The Flash plugin identifies itself as Shockwave Flash plugin as you can see in the System Details List.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave

Adobe refers to them as Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Shockwave Player

• http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
• http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/otherversions/

Shockwave Flash no longer exists -- Ask Adobe! Firefox needs to call a spade a spade, and referencing Wikipedia is pointless sidetracking when you should reference Adobe directly.

In the internals of the plugin it is still referenced as Shockwave Flash. That hasn't changed as it would break websites that check for a specific plugin name. You can see that on the about:plugins page and in the properties of the Flash plugins file.

You can open the Web Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer) and paste this JavaScript code in the command line to see how the Adobe Flash Player plugin identifies itself:

console.log(navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].name);
console.log(navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description);

• https://developer.mozilla.org/Tools/Web_Console

On disk you will also see Macromedia for folder names used by the plugin.

• 32 bit Windows: C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\
• 64 bit Windows: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\
• C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\