The flash player itself can be launched standalone. On Linux Adobe provides a separate archive with a flashplayer executable that launches it without a browser

The flash player itself can be launched standalone. On Linux Adobe provides a separate archive with a flashplayer executable that launches it without a browser : https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/25/flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/2... I recall seeing it on Windows too.