Shockwave Player vs. Shockwave Flash (Flash Player)

For historic/legacy reasons there are two free Adobe browser add-ons with somewhat similar names
Shockwave Flash
Shockwave Player
Shockwave Flash is Flash Player
Shockwave Player is Shockwave Player
This is the Shockwave Player forum.
Please post problems regarding Shockwave Flash in the Flash Player forum
installation problems: http://forums.adobe.com/community/flashplayer/installing_flashplayer
usage problems: http://forums.adobe.com/community/flashplayer/using_flashplayer

Hi stevewriter122 and welcome to our community
Hmmm, your mention of eHelp indicates a bit of time has
elapsed. As a result, I'm going to crawl way out here on this shaky
little limb and say that maybe that was the case at one point in
time, but it probably changed. Or, maybe it was just voodoo all
along. I'm simply not sure. Maybe Catbandit has some good stuff
about all that, as he is another one that also combined RoboDemo
with RoboHelp.
However, I'm another person that now combines RoboHelp with
Captivate. (I never could warm up to RoboDemo, but Captivate rocked
my world) Anyway, I'm happy to report that I've been combining
Captivate movies with both .CHM and WebHelp output for a long time
with no issues. And with my laptop being pretty new, I'm doubtful
Shockwave player is even on the system. But I'll counter that with
the open admittance that I'm not sure how I would even go about
testing to see if it was present.
Hopefully others will happily chime in here and offer other
insights on this.
Cheers... Rick

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