Remove plugins?

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Remove plugins?

I am having a problem where Safari response drops to a crawl. I have identified that it has to do with some plugin, but cannot determine which. Is there a way to disable/delete/uninstall plugins? Or, for that matter, to identify what plugins are installed?

15" MBP, Mac OS X (10.4), Currenly have: 1 MBP, 1 PB, 1 iMac

Posted on Oct 15, 2008 4:21 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 15, 2008 6:51 AM in response to Mike Lipay

You can disable plugins and test. Click Edit-> Preferences, Security tab, then uncheck "Enable Plugins".

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Answer 2

Mike Lipay Author

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Oct 15, 2008 7:07 AM in response to Reverse_Parn

I've already done that, which is how I know the problem is with the plugins. I now need to determine which plugin is causing the problem. To do that I need to be able to remove them from Safari, or disable individual plugins.

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Oct 15, 2008 8:27 AM in response to Mike Lipay

It says you're on a Mac. Are you using VMware with Safari for Windows? I think all plugins are listed in your Add/Remove Programs (on Windows).

Click Develop menu, select Web Inspector. It should show what plugin is trying to load.

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Mike Lipay Author

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Oct 15, 2008 8:31 AM in response to Reverse_Parn

No, I am working on a Dell Latitude, the device info is for my "real" computer at home.

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Oct 15, 2008 8:41 AM in response to Mike Lipay

I might be having the same problem. Sometimes it seems my Safari just completely stops working. It will load about an inch worth of blue in the address bar and then never load the page. I disabled plugins and it seems to have helped. How can I look at the plugins I've got on a Mac and see if any of those are causing the problem?

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mattjmac

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Oct 15, 2008 8:10 PM in response to spotoftea2

Once I set my Inquisitor preferences to search through Yahoo it's been working fine. I also followed the steps to clean up the Safari preferences folder in my user folder as described in the other thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1752502&tstart=0

See if that works. I was experiencing just what you described with the url loading about an inch then stopping.

Matt

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Answer 7

Oct 16, 2008 9:34 AM in response to mattjmac

I saw a Twitter tweet from who I believe was the developer that said they know about it and are working on it. I guess I can deal with Yahoo for a few days.

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Mike Lipay Author

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Oct 16, 2008 9:44 AM in response to spotoftea2

You saw a what what???

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Answer 9

Oct 16, 2008 11:24 AM in response to Mike Lipay

Check out www.twitter.com

If you send messages aka tweets, they can be from your PC or your phone.

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