How do I tell what Plug-Ins are installed on Safari?

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How do I tell what Plug-Ins are installed on Safari?

The Settings > Safari menu on the iPhone has a switch to turn Plug-Ins on and off, but is no link on the menu to display which Plug-Ins are installed. Is there another way to view/manage Safari Plug-Ins on the iPhone?

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Posted on Jul 10, 2007 11:18 AM

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sykotik

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Jul 10, 2007 11:24 AM in response to Mark Hall1

There is not a way to see which plug-ins are installed, but just so you know, disabling the plug-ins in the Settings only enables/disables some kind of videos from playing, presumably Quicktime. Hope that helps!

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Mark Hall1 Author

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Jul 10, 2007 11:34 AM in response to sykotik

Thanks for the confirmation. I tried browsing the local file that would normally display the plug-in information in the full desktop version of Safari, but the handheld version throws a message that it can't display local files.

It would be nice if there were information on line regarding what plug-ins are installed. I can see how they would want to keep tight control over installation and updates, but it would be nice to know what the unit will not work with. Lack of .swf support has already been discovered to be an issue.

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sykotik

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Jul 10, 2007 11:39 AM in response to Mark Hall1

From what I've found so far, Quicktime is it. That's all you enable/disable with the Plug-Ins option, nothing more. Flash is not supported at this time, as you've discovered, so any flash sites or applications most definitely will not work if you browse to them, and disabling the Plug-Ins option should stop any Quicktime videos from playing/caching on websites. If I manage to find any more info, I'll post it up, but so far, that looks to be the only thing enabled/disabled.

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NetBear

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Jul 10, 2007 12:12 PM in response to Mark Hall1

I found a site that will give you information on the browser accessing it:

http://www.aadmm.de/en/br.htm

The plug-in list lists only "QuickTime Plug-in" for the iPhone Safari.

Strangely this page also lists Java as being activated. But I didn't think that was enabled on iPhone.

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sykotik

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Jul 10, 2007 12:15 PM in response to NetBear

Javascript is indeed enabled and supported, and can be enabled/disabled under Settings > Safari > JavaScript. Most likely they used a generic label for "Java" on that site.

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