Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

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Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Patricek0056 » 2023-02-08, 15:18

I want to know in what location/folder are located the Pale Moon plug-ins in my hard drive. I knew this, but I forgot the location.

I'm asking this, because I want to add QuickTime, and ActiveX plug-ins to that folder.

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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2023-02-08, 15:55

Please note that activeX plugins won't work. they need to be NPAPI plugins.

Plugins can be located in several places. in your profile (/plugins) in the application folder or in any location on your hard drive with the appropriate registry entry (flash does it that way)
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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Pentium4User » 2023-02-08, 16:00

IIRC QuickTime had an NPAPI plugin, but not supported anymore.

Plugins do not come from Pale Moon itself, they come/came from other vendors like Apple, Adobe etc.

I don't know any active developed NPAPI plugin, it is an old API that is mostly abandoned.
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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Patricek0056 » 2023-02-08, 16:02

Can I drop a symbolic link for the plug-in DLL in the plug-ins folder?
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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2023-02-08, 16:03

Probably not.
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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Patricek0056 » 2023-02-08, 16:06

How can I set the environment variable for the plug-ins folder? Will the MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH variable work?

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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Patricek0056 » 2023-02-08, 16:21

And can I copy the QuickTime plug-in DLLs into “C:\Program Files\Pale Moon\browser\plugins”?

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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by therube » 2023-02-09, 17:44

Curious.
What are you looking at that is requiring QT ?

Would downloading or opening a link in something like mplayer / mpv (video player) be an option?


https://kb.mozillazine.org/QuickTime

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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Pentium4User » 2023-02-09, 19:09

Patricek0056 wrote:
2023-02-08, 16:21
And can I copy the QuickTime plug-in DLLs into “C:\Program Files\Pale Moon\browser\plugins”?
I don't know how, but after Installing QuickTime (make sure you install the plugin) it should be available for Pale Moon - like Adobe Flash and other too.
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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Mæstro » 2023-02-16, 16:45

Pentium4User wrote:
2023-02-08, 16:00
I don't know any active developed NPAPI plugin, it is an old API that is mostly abandoned.
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I wonder whether we have many Chinese users, or else what browsers they are using, for as far as I know, the UXP Project’s browsers are the only ones still maintained which support NPAPI, SeaMonkey having lately forsaken this.
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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2023-02-17, 06:15

Off-topic:
Mæstro wrote:
2023-02-16, 16:45
what browsers they are using
most likely Internet Explorer
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Re: Where are the Pale Moon plug-ins located?

Unread post by Blacklab » 2023-02-17, 10:15

Off-topic:
Guardian UK article Tue 14Feb23 wrote:Microsoft to phase out Internet Explorer with newer Edge browser. Microsoft is killing off the outdated browser’s desktop app after nearly 30 years with the release of an update to its newer Edge browser on Tuesday...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ge-browser

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