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Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:44:04 GMT |
Can Opera share plugins with MSIE and/or Firefox?
For example, can Opera share the Adobe Flash
and Sun Java plugins with MS IE?
Or does the plugin downloaded by a particular browser
get assigned for use by that browser only?
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Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:47:18 +010 |
"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> writes:
> Can Opera share plugins with MSIE and/or Firefox?
> For example, can Opera share the Adobe Flash
> and Sun Java plugins with MS IE?
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> Or does the plugin downloaded by a particular browser
> get assigned for use by that browser only?
>
> *TimDaniels*
I don't think it's typical that the browser installs the plug-in, but
that the plug-in installs itself after being downloaded. So I would
guess that most plug-ins don't really know (or care) which browser was
used to download it. So, in principle, the plug-in should work in all
browsers once it is installed.
However: There are two main "browser plug-in" interfaces. One is the
netscape 4 interface, and the other is ActiveX. Opera only supports
the netscape 4 interface as far as I know.
And note that in general, opera doesn't use any plug-in to run Java.
Instead it uses the java system directly.
eirik
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Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:53:23 GMT |
"Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen" replied:
> "Timothy Daniels" writes:
>
>> Can Opera share plugins with MSIE and/or Firefox?
>> For example, can Opera share the Adobe Flash
>> and Sun Java plugins with MS IE?
>>
>> Or does the plugin downloaded by a particular browser
>> get assigned for use by that browser only?
>>
>> *TimDaniels*
>
> I don't think it's typical that the browser installs the plug-in,
> but that the plug-in installs itself after being downloaded.
> So I would guess that most plug-ins don't really know (or care)
> which browser was used to download it. So, in principle,
> the plug-in should work in all browsers once it is installed.
Yes, Flash mysteriously works for me in Opera, now, as it
does in IE. I guess the plugin took my threat against it seriously
:-)
> However: There are two main "browser plug-in" interfaces.
> One is the netscape 4 interface, and the other is ActiveX.
> Opera only supports the netscape 4 interface as far as I know.
Why doesn't this disallow the same plugin from being used
by both Opera and IE? (Presumably, IE would use the ActiveX
interface, while Opera would use the Netscape 4 interface.)
> And note that in general, opera doesn't use any plug-in to run
> Java. Instead it uses the java system directly.
Java didn't work in Opera for me - until I found the enablement
checkbox in Preferences/Advanced/Enable Java. Now it works
in both Opera and IE. Duhhh..... :-)
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Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:04:01 +0000 |
> Tim: Java didn't work in Opera for me - until I found the enablement
> checkbox in Preferences/Advanced/Enable Java. Now it works
> in both Opera and IE.
And you can also disable it on-the-fly from F12. This comes handy for all
users who need Java only occasionally.
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Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:10:54 GMT |
"Lester Vanhoff" added:
>> Tim: Java didn't work in Opera for me - until I found the enablement
>> checkbox in Preferences/Advanced/Enable Java. Now it works
>> in both Opera and IE.
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> And you can also disable it on-the-fly from F12. This comes handy for all
> users who need Java only occasionally.
Or... click Tools/Quick Preferences and check/uncheck "Enable
Java."
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