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Re: Plug in's

Subject: Re: Plug in's
From: "Lee Harvey"
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:54:49 -0500
Newsgroups: opera.general

cryptograph@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is there a way to stop windows media player from executing in the browser?

Excluding globally disabling plug-ins in Opera and content-sniffing firewall 
blocking, I can think of a few other ways to achieve this:

First, you could try adding npdsplay.dll to Opera's plugin-ignore.ini file.

Second, you could try modifying the MIME file type download behavior of the 
following (via Preferences> Advanced tab> Downloads section)...

   application/asx         *
   application/x-mplayer2  *
   audio/x-ms-wax          wax,*
   audio/x-ms-wma          wma,*
   video/x-ms-asf          asf,asx
   video/x-ms-asf-plugin   *
   video/x-ms-wm           wm,*
   video/x-ms-wmv          wmv,*
   video/x-ms-wvx          wvx,*

Third, you could try creating a UserJS or UserCSS file to specifically block 
WiMP <object>s and links in HTML.

Finally (and probably the easiest), if it's just specific sites that are 
annoying you with WiMP content, try right-clicking on any page of those 
sites, select "Edit site preferences...", goto the "Content" tab, and 
uncheck the "Enable plug-ins" checkbox.  That way, plug-in content will be 
enabled for the majority of sites you visit, but disabled for those annoying 
ones.

[BTW, renaming the npdsplay.dll file indicated in opera:plugins might also 
work]

HTH 



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