Adobe will provide the same software, called the ActionScript Virtual Machine, which it uses to run script code in the Adobe Flash Player 9.

Adobe's once-mighty plug-in will stop working soon, not a moment too soon. Some old Flash games, however, are great—and clever workarounds will save them.

After major web browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox decided to push Flash further into irrelevancy, Adobe finally saw the writing on the wall and announced that Flash would be put out ...