Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Details > Plug-ins???
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The other night, after visiting Many Tricks, I found a manytricks.com (Plug-ins) item in the above captioned location. My first reaction was to look in /Library/Internet Plug-ins and ~/Library/Internet Plug-ins to see what was up, but both locations were empty, and neither I nor Peter and Rob of Many Tricks, who are as mystified as I am, have been able to reproduce the item. Prior to this incident and since I've seen only Cache, Cookies, and Cache, Cookies items in "Privacy," and I'm wondering whether the Plug-ins item was a hiccup or some as yet unexplained reality? Anybody?
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The other night, after visiting Many Tricks, I found a manytricks.com (Plug-ins) item in the above captioned location. My first reaction was to look in /Library/Internet Plug-ins and ~/Library/Internet Plug-ins to see what was up, but both locations were empty, and neither I nor Peter and Rob of Many Tricks, who are as mystified as I am, have been able to reproduce the item. Prior to this incident and since I've seen only Cache, Cookies, and Cache, Cookies items in "Privacy," and I'm wondering whether the Plug-ins item was a hiccup or some as yet unexplained reality? Anybody? I can't provide any rigorous explanation or anything, but now i think i know from where Safari is deriving that particular "Plug-in" info. Have a look in the ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/ folder for a TOC.plist file. And/or just run this terminal command: defaults read ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/TOC
It seems to be storing URLs pointing to online movie (.mov) or sound (.wav) files. The items labeled "Plug-in" displayed in the ' Cookies and other website data' list correspond to domains of those URLs. Just delete (or clear) the TOC.plist and voila... no more plugins showing. [may as well dump all the .qtch files in that downloads hierarchy too... unless any correspond to some video you view frequently.]
Last edited by Hal Itosis; 01/07/12 10:36 PM.
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Re: Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Details > Plug-ins???
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Thanks for the insight. Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ defaults read ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/TOC
2012-01-08 02:51:46.323 defaults[1553:903]
Domain /Users/artie/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/TOC does not exist
Artie-s-Computer-4:~ artie$ On the other hand, though, that file does exist...contents or no contents, as the case may be: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict/>
</plist>
Does that mean anything to you? (Edit: I'll keep an eye peeled to see what, if anything, turns up in that file.)
Last edited by artie505; 01/08/12 07:04 AM.
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Re: Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Details > Plug-ins???
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Oops! I don't know where my head was at last night, but I just remembered that I've never, ever used QuickTime, and, as a matter of fact, it hasn't even existed on my deuced Mac(hina) in at least a coupl'a years.
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What application do you use to view MPEGs (as opposed to WMV files)?
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Re: Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Details > Plug-ins???
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What application do you use to view MPEGs (as opposed to WMV files)? I don't think I've ever watched an MPEG, but I'm not certain, since I'm not even certain what an MPEG is. If the issue ever came up, though, I think the answer is VLC.
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I'll check out VLC. Never heard of it, but it seems to offer something for all OSs.
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On the other hand, though, that file does exist...contents or no contents, as the case may be: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict/>
</plist>
Does that mean anything to you? (Edit: I'll keep an eye peeled to see what, if anything, turns up in that file.) Well, are there still any 'Plug-in' items remaining in your list then? (and what are the creation/modified dates on that TOC.plist?) Think maybe i'll visit the manytricks website and see what appears on my Mac. Any particular page you would suggest? [did you play any media file(s) there?] edit: just went to the main page, and they didn't even so much as 'cookie' me. [an entry did appear labeled cache, but it went away after the usual ⌘⌥E ]
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> Well, are there still any 'Plug-in' items remaining in your list then?
Which list, please?
> (and what are the creation/modified dates on that TOC.plist?)
Created 1-2-12 and modified 1-5-12; it looks like Yasu (which I've found clears some caches that shouldn't be cleared just because they're there) cleared it.
Butler, which hasn't left me a "Plug-in" item other than that one time, just left me a "Cache" item, too.
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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> Well, are there still any 'Plug-in' items remaining in your list then?
Which list, please? See post #1 (and the thread's title). > (and what are the creation/modified dates on that TOC.plist?)
Created 1-2-12 and modified 1-5-12; it looks like Yasu (which I've found clears some caches that shouldn't be cleared just because they're there) cleared it. End of story then. [that's where the plug-in you asked about in post #1 was hiding.] Butler, which hasn't left me a "Plug-in" item other than that one time, just left me a "Cache" item, too. Probably you visited some page with a media (movie or sound) file.
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> Well, are there still any 'Plug-in' items remaining in your list then?
Which list, please? See post #1 (and the thread's title). Oh... That list! (Sorry, but "list" was a bit obscure.) I dunno... I hit -⌥-E a million times a day without even looking at what I'm clearing. Butler, which hasn't left me a "Plug-in" item other than that one time, just left me a "Cache" item, too. Probably you visited some page with a media (movie or sound) file. I don't recall ever visiting such a page on the Many Tricks Website, and, in fact, I just got that cache entry without clicking on anything on or navigating away from the Many Tricks home page. (Nothing in TOC.plist, or would that be totally unexpected?) Edit: I'll try to keep an eye out and see what, if anything, winds up in TOC.plist during my meandering around the Internet.
Last edited by artie505; 01/13/12 07:48 AM. Reason: Edit: & Cleanup
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Update: I just found ytimg.com/Plug-ins in "Privacy." (Edit: It appeared when I viewed a YouTube video.) Safari Cookies identifies it as a Flash cookie, and it does not appear in TOC.plist... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict/>
</plist>
Last edited by artie505; 01/16/12 09:04 AM.
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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Do you remember which video it was? (link please, so i can try the same one)
Also, do you have Perian or Flip4Mac installed? [some youtube items are wmv, and maybe . . . ]
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Do you remember which video it was? (link please, so i can try the same one)
Also, do you have Perian or Flip4Mac installed? [some youtube items are wmv, and maybe . . . ] A Simon's Cat fan film is the one (and I just duplicated my experience). I've got Flip4Mac installed. Edit: By the way... Sorry for omitting this info from my original post.
Last edited by artie505; 01/16/12 07:48 PM.
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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A Simon's Cat fan film is the one (and I just duplicated my experience). I've got Flip4Mac installed. Edit: By the way... Sorry for omitting this info from my original post. All i get from viewing that viddy is a "ytimg.com" cache (and TOC.plist was left bare), so perhaps Flip4Mac is convincing Safari that a plug-in should be displayed as well. ::shrug::
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A Simon's Cat fan film is the one (and I just duplicated my experience). I've got Flip4Mac installed. Edit: By the way... Sorry for omitting this info from my original post. All i get from viewing that viddy is a "ytimg.com" cache (and TOC.plist was left bare), so perhaps Flip4Mac is convincing Safari that a plug-in should be displayed as well. ::shrug:: Oops... I also had a ytimg.com cache item, but I had ⌥--E'd it away, so it slipped my mind.
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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