Bring back opera://plugins/

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Chromium dropped it.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Then Opera should provide something in the graphical interface to allow people to see a list of the plugins, with version information at the very least. Hiding them does not make much sense. Just adding something in the View menu to Show Plugins as well as Show Extensions which is in there now would be fine.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

There's a section in settings page for Flash.

And Flash is the only external plug-in supported by Chromium.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I am not talking about settings. What is wrong with showing information? As long as there is any plugin at all, there should be some way to get simple information about it without having to hack it.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Why keeping a page just to show Flash information?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Why not? It is a plugin. Actually, why could the information about the version not be displayed in the preference setting? Instead of just saying "Flash", why not "Flash 25.0.0.171"?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Why not? It is a plugin

It would be a waste of code.

Actually, why could the information about the version not be displayed in the preference setting? Instead of just saying "Flash", why not "Flash 25.0.0.171"?

For maybe 99% of the users such information is kinda unnecessary, not to mention that it can be fetched in other places.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

What waste of code? It was there, then it was removed. In what other places can one get the full version number of PPAPI Flash other than by opening up the app package and reading a file in there? Where can you get that information in the Opera interface?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

What waste of code? It was there, then it was removed

Because it was no longer necessary.

In what other places can one get the full version number of PPAPI Flash other than by opening up the app package and reading a file in there?

On Windows you can get it on Control Panel, don't know about other OS. You can also go to this page and check what version of Flash is installed.

Anyway, for those who do a standard installation of Flash it shouldn't be that important because they probably will be running the latest version.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You are right about Mac's version of Control Panel (System Preferences). That info is there. Thanks for that.