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Chrome plugins - can't get it to work Options
serializer
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2016 6:07:00 AM
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1. The AutoScanCommonFolders is enabled by default. Still, it does not seem it searches for plugins in the common folder: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions (testing on Windows 10)
2. even though I specify this folder manually it does not seem to work. I am especially testing the AdBlock plugin and it still loads ads for http://download.cnet.com/windows/ in the EO.WebBrowser
3. how is it supposed to work - are all plugins enabled that it founds? Can you disable certain plugins from code?
eo_support
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2016 10:53:42 AM
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Hi,

There are a number of things that can be potentially mixed up together:

1. Extension and plug-ins are two different things. EO.WebBrowser supports plug-ins, but not extension;
2. EO.WebBrowser and Chrome browser are unrelated except that they are based on the same code base. This means whatever data maintained by your Chrome browser would NOT have anything to do with EO.WebBrowser. In another word, EO.WebBrowser will not read Chrome browser's setting or scan its plug-ins;
3. There are two different type of plug-in standard: NPAPI and PPAPI. NPAPI originates from Netscape and were supported by all major browsers until Google developed PPAPI. The Chromium project (upon which both Google Chrome browser and EO.WebBrowser is built) has been supporting both for a while until finally it dropped NPAPI support. a result, EO.WebBrowser does not support NPAPI either. So if you have a NPAPI based plug in, then there is no way to run it either in Google Chrome browser or EO.WebBrowser;

You can check those one by one and see which one is preventing EO.WebBrowser from loading your plugin.

You can not disable certain plugin once it's found. You can only control how pluins are searched. If you only wish to have certain plugin loaded, you can copy them into a specific directory and then set AutoScanCommonPlugins to false and AdditionalPluginsDirs to the directory that contains the plugins that you wish to load.

Thanks!
serializer
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2016 12:09:32 PM
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Ok, thank you for your answer. Some follow up questions:

1. Is there any site where you can find and download PPAPI plugins?
2. Is it correct that I need to deselect AutoScanCommonPlugins to use AdditionalPluginsDirs?
3. do you have any plans supporting Extensions? This would be a great addition!
eo_support
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2016 12:23:53 PM
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serializer wrote:
1. Is there any site where you can find and download PPAPI plugins?

We do not know this --- this is generic question for Chrome browser so we consider it beyond the scope of our support. You may want to contact Google for this. Personally I think the best approach is probably to contact the plugin vendor to see if they have a PPAPI version of their plugin.


serializer wrote:
2. Is it correct that I need to deselect AutoScanCommonPlugins to use AdditionalPluginsDirs?

If you want to precisely control which plugin gets loaded, then yes.

serializer wrote:
3. do you have any plans supporting Extensions? This would be a great addition!

We do plan to support it in the long run but we do not expect to be able to support it in the near future.

Thanks!


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