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[Solved]How do i enable plugins in opera 44?

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  • dontneedaname

    Man why is every browser ditching Java? geez i may need to use IE

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  • leocg
    Moderator

    Man why is every browser ditching Java?

    Oracle is dropping Java plug-in.

    Also, the future of the web is - or should be at least - plug-in free.

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  • lando242

    Java plugins are dead. The developer is dropping support, all current browsers are dropping support, it has been a long time coming. Just stop using websites that were designed in 2008 and you won't even need it anymore.

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  • athlonite

    But how do you even access the plugins page now all I get with opera://plugins is this site can't be reached

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  • sgunhouse
    Moderator

    There is none, Chromium removed it.

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  • leocg
    Moderator

    But how do you even access the plugins page now all I get with opera://plugins is this site can't be reached

    Plugins page has been removed by Chromium since it became kinda obsolete.

    There are sections for Flash and PDF viewer in Settings.

    For Widevine you can use opera://components.

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  • ynotdoo

    But how do you even access the plugins page now all I get with opera://plugins is this site can't be reached

    Plugins page has been removed by Chromium since it became kinda obsolete.
    There are sections for Flash and PDF viewer in Settings.
    For Widevine you can use opera://components.

    im trying to watch netflix and it says that Widevine is disabled, how would I enable it?

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  • leocg
    Moderator

    how would I enable it?

    It's enabled by default and can't be disabled.

    Anyway you can try checking opera://components/

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  • thartneid

    Everyone here seems to tell me, that it's a good thing the opera:plugins page has been removed.

    I say: nonsense!

    For instance flash-player. It could happen, when installing the latest PPAPI-flash-plugin, all of a sudden certain online-videos couldn't play anymore because of damn area-restrictions from some tv-station-websites (e.g. ad-financed preview videos).

    In that case I had to revert to the previous flash-PPAPI until the blunder was fixed (usually 1 or 2 versions later).

    Now, without the Menu/Developers/plugins overview, I cannot even tell which build of flash-PPAPI is actively installed, let alone disable it selectively for pages with conflicts between flash and "shockwave"-videos.

    So, before uninstalling and reverting to previous flash version because of crappy latest build, how can I now at least tell the version number of the version currently installed??

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  • leocg
    Moderator

    Everyone here seems to tell me, that it's a good thing the opera:plugins page has been removed.
    I say: nonsense!

    The only third part plug-in supported by Chromium is Flash and having a page for it when you can change its settings in the Settings page is what I would call nonsense. 🙂

    It could happen, when installing the latest PPAPI-flash-plugin, all of a sudden certain online-videos couldn't play anymore because of damn area-restrictions from some tv-station-websites (e.g. ad-financed preview videos).

    It doesn't make sense to me. If a video on a page has view restrictions and can only be watched from a certain place, using a new or an old version of Flash will not change it.

    how can I now at least tell the version number of the version currently installed??

    Windows' Control Panel or this Adobe's page

    Anyway, version of Flash should not be something relevant for the regular user.

    BTW, the main issue of this topic has been resolved so closing it.

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