Re: Disabling plugins

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Luca Ferretti<elle uca libero it> wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 10/08/2009 alle 17.42 +0300, Xan Lopez ha scritto:
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Paul van der Vlis<paul vandervlis nl> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am looking for an easy way to disable a plugin.
>> >
>> > In my case it's about the flash-plugin. I have 3 different flash-plugins
>> > installed, and I want to be able to switch between them.
>> > But how can I disable the other plugins?
>>
>> You can put them in different directories and then launch epiphany
>> with MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/pathtoyourstuff epiphany, that's what I do to
>> launch epiphany instances with flash (having flash in $HOME/plugins).
>
> But the "disabling plugin" feature that Paul would like in Epiphany is
> not so bad. Firefox provides this and could be really useful for web
> developing and similar.

I agree.

>
> Xan, if I'm right, something like this was recently added to WebKit (not
> WebKitGtk), wasn't it? Of course current WebKitGtk has other priorities,
> but could be good have this feature in Epiphany, maybe managed via
> GConf.

I recall some code about disabled plugin lists and such landing
recently, so it might be possible to implement this in WebKitGTK+
either by wrapping that in a GObject API or by implementing
"about:plugins" directly. As usual it just needs someone to step in
and do the work :)

Xan

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