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video player in Adobe Flash format for the tablet Kindle Fire

site All Things D, citing a representative Amazon said that the company since February test video player in Adobe Flash format for the tablet Kindle Fire. Thus in most Adobe stopped developing a mobile version of the Flash Player in November 2011, about a year ago and have withdrawn the application from the store Google Play.

to the video consumed less traffic, the experimental player uses technology from Amazon Silk, which compresses web pages on the company’s servers, and then sends the browser. In the Amazon report that Flash support on the Kindle Fire agreed to provide to numerous requests from users.

Flash Player for Android require a lot of system resources, and has had problems with stability. Due to the failure of Apple to support Flash in iOS video services, many have switched to HTML5. The standard is switched and the most Adobe. However, still there are many video sites that require Flash. In the Amazon will support only some of them, but will gradually increase the number of compatible. Meanwhile, rumored to be released in the autumn three new Kindle Fire with displays that have a higher resolution and brightness than today.

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