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What is the flash assistant and what is it? In view of this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and answers in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and feasible way.

Flash helper is the process of Flash Player; the role of flash helper is to help Adobe Flash Player advanced client run time to use the player, which is short and can be used on a variety of browsers, operating systems and mobile devices. It can basically achieve all the functions of Flash.

What is a flash assistant?

FlashHelperService.exe is the process of Flash Player, and flash helper service can be uninstalled.

In fact, its history can be traced back to the beginning of the Internet, the earliest dazzling animations on web pages were written by Flash, that is to say, there is no corresponding player, then all the websites you see are only pictures, text and colors. But in the later use, people gradually found that Flash has many disadvantages, such as poor security, many vulnerabilities, large resource consumption, instability, complex production, low operating efficiency and so on, and then turn their attention to one of its substitutes-HTML5.

Since Adobe Flash Player 30 (Flash was first developed by Macromedia and later acquired by Adobe), users in Chinese mainland region have actually used the so-called "Flash special version", and one of the biggest differences between the special version and the overseas version is that it contains a pop-up advertisement.

In the early days, this pop-up window was called "FF novelty", but later it was changed to "FF New recommendation". In other words, this is actually a "free value-added service" that Chinese users get when they install Adobe Flash player controls.

What is the role of a flash assistant?

Download the online installation package on Flash China's official website. The latest version is v30.0.0.134, which includes FlashHelperService service and runs in the background by default. From its service description, "anonymous usage data will be sent like 2144 to help improve Flash player", 2144 is an Internet company with 2144 game centers, and heavy Orange Network is its subsidiary. Previously, some users reported that the 2144 game center was bundled and installed in the process of installing Flash Player, but the author did not encounter it during the installation process.

After the emergence of HTML5, it can basically achieve all the functions of Flash, but also make more people realize the backwardness and inefficiency of Flash, that is to say, these problems are also necessary factors for the rapid popularization of HTML5. Now that the companies have begun to abandon Flash, can't we just give up completely?

Apple was the first to resist Flash. From the era of Steve Jobs, YouTube began to abandon Flash. At present, domestic mainstream video websites such as iqiyi, Tencent / Youku have also begun to support and use HTML5 by default, but it has not been abandoned completely. At present, most of the video sites still do not achieve good profits, and giving up Flash means giving up some users, or forcing users to turn to other rival sites. In addition, advertising is also an important reason to support Flash until now, giving up Flash will not bring them any benefit.

This is the distribution of domestic Windows systems and PC-side IE browsers in the first quarter of 2018 according to CNCERT statistics, in which XP systems and older browsers below IE 8 still account for a large proportion. This group of users almost heavily rely on Flash, or in the words of the TK boss, "after all, we are still a developing country, and some websites that we have to visit in our daily life have just solved the problem of supporting only IE6."

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