Can't delete plugin path

[thedudeman]

thedudeman last edited by

I have Opera 12.14 x86 and Win7 x64. In opera:plugins there is a path to a Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugins). I don't know if this plugin can be used by Opera but I already have VLC plugin that can handle wmv files so I want to remove the firefox path from Opera. The problem is everytime I delete the path from opera:config and/or operaprefs.ini it always come back. I can't seem to get rid of it.

FYI I have my Opera profile in a different location on another hard drive.

Anyone know why I can't remove this path and how I can do it?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Not sure but i think Opera finds it automatically. You can disable the plugin if you don't want Opera to use it.

[thedudeman]

thedudeman last edited by

Yea I already have it disabled. I'd like to remove it since I don't need to use it. Why would Opera use another browser's plugins anyways?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Opera Presto uses Npapi (or something like this) plugins.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Opera would use another browser's plugins so that you don't need to have several copies on your system, of course.

[thedudeman]

thedudeman last edited by

So what happens if you delete those plugins on the other browser or delete the browser all together? It doesn't seem like a good idea to rely on another program's files.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

The Opera browser would fail to find or run the now-deleted plug-in, and you'd have to go obtain another one for Opera. Just as you'd do anyway if each browser needed its own copy of plug-ins.