Google-chrome – What plugin is Google Chrome blocking

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In Google Chrome, I have my options set so that all plugins are click-to-play. For the most part, this works fine. However, sometimes, Chrome will show the Chrome plugin blocked icon on a page that I can't find a plugin on, even by looking through the source html of the page. There's no element on the page that I can see that is asking me to click it to play the plugin. Is there a way to identify exactly what plugin(s) Google is asking me to play?

I'm aware that I can go through and disable extensions to see if one of those is causing it, but in general, it'd be nice to know what I'm enabling when I run plugins, so I'd still like to know if there is a way to identify them.

Note: These settings can be obtained by the following steps:

  1. about:flags > disable Block all third-party cookies
  2. options > Under the Hood > Plugins > Click To Play

Best Answer

You should be able to find them by looking through the embed tags and perhaps the newer canvas tags.

  1. Start the Developer tools from the Wrench -> Tools menu.

  2. Search for embed and canvas, enumerate through the found tags.

  3. Repeat the search for both the Elements and Scripts tab.

In my case I have Cooliris installed, and apparently thanks to you I have just discovered that it always loads:

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PS: I'm using Firefox 6.0a1 as a main browser, but Google Chrome and IE9 as a back-up for when Firefox 6.0a1 breaks.

However, if enabling the plug-in is allowed, you could simply open Task Manager from the Tools menu and check the latest plug-in(s) that was/were launched. Which indicates what plug-in(s) the site ran.

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