Adobe Shockwave player is a multimedia player, which helps view multimedia content on the web in your browser. The Shockwave player is comparable to the Flash player, but the difference is the features available in Shockwave are better than Flash. This plug-in can be downloaded directly from the Adobe site at http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/. Many popular web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and
. Internet Explorer provide the download in their Plug-ins section. The download locations for both the browsers respectively are https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7 and http://www.ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=shockwave.