Where does opera store path to plugins?
Jane
I want to make Opera 9 run without Opera 8 being present. I notice that
Opera 9's OPERA6.INI and OPERADEF.INI point to plugins found in my old
Opera installation.
So I have moved the plugins. I have also changed all the plugin paths
in OPERA6.INI and OPERADEF.INI. Of course, Opera was not running when I
did that.
When I launch Opera 9 and go to "opera:about" I get this info about the
plugin path:
C:\Program Files\Opera9\Program\Plugins
C:\Program Files\Firefox\plugins
C:\PROGRA~1\Opera7\plugins
C:\PROGRA~1\Opera7\program\plugins
(My old Opera 8 was installed in a directory
called "OPERA7")
The last two lines in that "opera:about" listing are unnecessary. I
would like to remove them.
But where are the lines coming from? If I rename
C:\program Files\Opera 7
the lines vanish but how can I get the lines not to show up without
renaming the Opera 7 folder?
David W. Hodgins
> But where are the lines coming from? If I rename
> C:\program Files\Opera 7
Tools/Preferances/Advanced/Content, click on the Plug-in Options button.
Click on the change path button, and then select/remove, for each
directory to be removed. Alternative method, edit pluginpath.ini with
opera not running, to remove the lines.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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Laurent Jumet
Hello Jane !
Jane <ja...@invalid.com> wrote:
> I want to make Opera 9 run without Opera 8 being present. I notice that
> Opera 9's OPERA6.INI and OPERADEF.INI point to plugins found in my old
> Opera installation.
Path is in OPERADEF6.INI
Plugin Path=C:\INTERWIN\OPERA\Program\Plugins;C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Plugins;
But you can have another path in OPERA6.INI
Launch a search on all your HD in all .INI files, looking for the string "Plugin Path".
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Timothy Daniels
> Jane <ja...@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> But where are the lines coming from? If I rename
>> C:\program Files\Opera 7
>
> Tools/Preferances/Advanced/Content, click on the Plug-in Options button.
> Click on the change path button, and then select/remove, for each
> directory to be removed. Alternative method, edit pluginpath.ini with
> opera not running, to remove the lines.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
What version of Opera is that for? My version 9.25 has no
"Plug-in Options button".
*TimDaniels*
David W. Hodgins
> What version of Opera is that for? My version 9.25 has no
> "Plug-in Options button".
Sorry, I thought that part of the interface was the same. I'm running 9.50,
build 1834, on linux.
Lin
go to opera:config#UserPrefs|PluginPath, remove the path which you wish
to, and don't forget to click Save button.
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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<yunyou...@gmail.dotcom>:
That will change the path as stored in the opera6.ini from your profile.
But usually the path isn't defined in opera6.ini, but in operadef6.ini in
the installation directory. Jane might have been looking in the wrong
installation directory?
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Jane
<ri...@opera-dot-com.invalid> wrote:
Rijk, it's weird. I close down Opera 9 and Opera 8.
In OPERADEF.INI in Opera9 Prog files, I have the following.
(It is written as one continuous line and the line numbers I show are
just for reference.)
1 Plugin Path=C:\Program Files\Opera9\Program\Plugins;
2 C:\Program Files\Firefox\plugins;
In OPERA6.INI in the Opera9 profile folder, the command
<opera:config#UserPrefs|PluginPath> shows me that I have this:
3 C:\Program Files\Opera9\Program\Plugins;
4 C:\Program Files\Firefox\plugins;
5 C:\PROGRA~1\Opera7\plugins;
6 C:\PROGRA~1\Opera7\program\plugins;
I check and see I have no "plugin path" defined in OPERA6.INI which
points to an Opera7 folder.
So I delete the last two lines in OPERA6.INI (lines 5 and 6) and check
the INI file
HOWEVER when I relaunch Opera 9 and use the command
<opera:config#UserPrefs|PluginPath> then I see I am back to a path
which says 3+4+5+6.
Where did 5+6 come from? !!!
if I rename C:\program Files\Opera7 then that cures it. How odd.
Opera 9 has no reason to go to Opera7's plugins folder (because it has
no thats which neeed it) and Opera 9 does so.
Can anyone else replicate ths result?
Leon Fisk
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Sounds normal to me. For whatever reason Opera goes
searching for plugins all on its own and has done so for
quite sometime now.
You might be able to stop it via the Block Plugins utility,
never tried that myself. I just try to keep the plugins up
to date in the main flavor of Opera I'm using at the time
and point all the other versions to that directory. Other
version plugin directory contents get deleted of moved to a
new directory name that Opera doesn't search for.
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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<lf...@no.spam.iserv.net>:
> Maybe, Jane Wrote:
Opera goes looking for default plugin folders for common plugins like
Acrobat, Flash and Real Player. Old Opera 7 plugin paths shouldn't be
checked, and even so, such 'on its own' foudn paths never show in
opera:config. So it doesn't sound normal to.
Jane, maybe you should check you don't have an 'opera6.ini' file in the
system directory. The system directory varies between system versions, but
normally the placement would be \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 on Windows XP, and
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM on Windows 9x. Settings from this file will override all
other Opera settings files. Opera's installer doesn't place this file
there by itself, it is a feature for system administrators.
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say rather than actually watching what they do." - J.Nielsen
Jane
<ri...@opera.invalid.removethis.com> wrote:
> Op Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:13:08 +0100 schreef Leon Fisk
> <lf...@no.spam.iserv.net>:
>> Maybe, Jane Wrote:
>>> On Tue 04 Mar 2008 10:22:27, Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:
>
>>> Rijk, it's weird. I close down Opera 9 and Opera 8.
>>> In OPERADEF.INI in Opera9 Prog files, I have the following.
>>> (It is written as one continuous line and the line numbers I
>>> show are just for reference.)
>>>
>>> 1 Plugin Path=C:\Program Files\Opera9\Program\Plugins;
>>> 2 C:\Program Files\Firefox\plugins;
>>>
>>> In OPERA6.INI in the Opera9 profile folder, the command
>>> <opera:config#UserPrefs|PluginPath> shows me that I have this:
>>>
>>> 3 C:\Program Files\Opera9\Program\Plugins;
>>> 4 C:\Program Files\Firefox\plugins;
>>> 5 C:\PROGRA~1\Opera7\plugins;
>>> 6 C:\PROGRA~1\Opera7\program\plugins;
>>>
>>> I check and see I have no "plugin path" defined in OPERA6.INI which
>>> points to an Opera7 folder. So I delete the last two lines in
>>> OPERA6.INI (lines 5 and 6) and chec k the INI file
>>>
>>> HOWEVER when I relaunch Opera 9 and use the command
>>> <opera:config#UserPrefs|PluginPath> then I see I am back to a path
>>> which says 3+4+5+6. Where did 5+6 come from? !!!
>>>
>>> If I rename C:\program Files\Opera7 then that cures it. How odd.
>>> Opera 9 has no reason to go to Opera7's plugins folder (
>>> because it has no thats which neeed it) and Opera 9 does so.
>>> Can anyone else replicate ths result?
>>>
>>
>> Sounds normal to me. For whatever reason Opera goes
>> searching for plugins all on its own and has done so for
>> quite sometime now.
>>
>
> Opera goes looking for default plugin folders for common plugins like
> Acrobat, Flash and Real Player. Old Opera 7 plugin paths shouldn't
> be checked, and even so, such 'on its own' foudn paths never show in
> opera:config. So it doesn't sound normal to.
>
> Jane, maybe you should check you don't have an 'opera6.ini' file in
> the system directory. The system directory varies between system
> versions, but normally the placement would be \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 on
> Windows XP, and \WINDOWS\SYSTEM on Windows 9x. Settings from this
> file will override all other Opera settings files. Opera's installer
> doesn't place this file there by itself, it is a feature for system
> administrators.
>
Rijk, I have found some OPERA6.INI files which are nested within
folders in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32. I have got the following folders and
there is a set of Opera files in each of them:
(A) C:\WINDOWS\
Config\systemprofile\Application Data\Opera\Opera7\profile
(B) C:\WINDOWS\system32\
config\systemprofile\Application Data\Opera\Opera7\profile
The most recently modified file in (A) is June 2006.
The most recently modified files in (B) are in April 2007 (opera6.ini,
cookies4.dat, download.dat).
Should I just delete the whole lot in both location?
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
..
> Rijk, I have found some OPERA6.INI files which are nested within
> folders in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32. I have got the following folders and
> there is a set of Opera files in each of them:
>
> (A) C:\WINDOWS\
> Config\systemprofile\Application Data\Opera\Opera7\profile
>
> (B) C:\WINDOWS\system32\
> config\systemprofile\Application Data\Opera\Opera7\profile
>
>
> The most recently modified file in (A) is June 2006.
>
> The most recently modified files in (B) are in April 2007 (opera6.ini,
> cookies4.dat, download.dat).
>
> Should I just delete the whole lot in both location?
Yes. 'systemprofile' contains data for the 'system account' in Windows XP
[1]. Some applications/services that need to run without any user being
logged into Windows XP use it, but Opera shouldn't show up there.
[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120929
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say rather than actually watching what they do." -- J.Nielsen