how to detect blocked plugins

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I am working on a site which requires multiple plugins like Flash, SilverLight etc. and I show a notification to user when any of required plugin is missing or not installed using JavaScript

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var nav = navigator.plugins["Silverlight Plug-In"]
var nav = navigator.plugins["Silverlight Plug-In"];

but when I block all plugins on chrome 16 above script also returns the plugin. my question is that how could I detect the blocked plugins? and what is different between blocked and disabled plugins?

Posted 26-Jan-12 19:24pm

naseer baloch

Updated 26-Jan-12 19:28pm

Rajesh Anuhya

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Rajesh Anuhya 27-Jan-12 1:28am

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Graham Breach · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-27T00:30:00

When plugins are "blocked" it means they don't automatically run, but you can still right-click and choose to "run this plug-in". It looks like you cannot and should not be able to detect when plugins are blocked.

Here's a page about it from the Chromium issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=76481[^]