Specify a list of plug-ins that the user can enable or disable

Specifies a list of plug-ins that user can enable or disable in Google Chrome.

The wildcard characters '*' and '?' can be used to match sequences of arbitrary characters. '*' matches an arbitrary number of characters while '?' specifies an optional single character, i.e. matches zero or one characters. The escape character is '\', so to match actual '*', '?', or '\' characters, you can put a '\' in front of them.

If you enable this setting, the specified list of plug-ins can be used in Google Chrome. Users can enable or disable them in 'about:plugins', even if the plug-in also matches a pattern in DisabledPlugins. Users can also enable and disable plug-ins that don't match any patterns in DisabledPlugins, DisabledPluginsExceptions and EnabledPlugins.

This policy is meant to allow for strict plug-in blacklisting where the 'DisabledPlugins' list contains wildcarded entries like disable all plug-ins '*' or disable all Java plug-ins '*Java*' but the administrator wishes to enable some particular version like 'IcedTea Java 2.3'. This particular versions can be specified in this policy.

Note that both the plug-in name and the plug-in's group name have to be exempted. Each plug-in group is shown in a separate section in about:plug-ins; each section may have one or more plug-ins. For example, the "Shockwave Flash" plug-in belongs to the "Adobe Flash Player" group, and both names have to have a match in the exceptions list if that plug-in is to be exempted from the blacklist.

If this policy is left not set, any plug-in that matches the patterns in the 'DisabledPlugins' will be locked disabled and the user won't be able to enable them.

Supported on: SUPPORTED_WIN7

List of exceptions to the list of disabled plugins

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Google\Chrome\DisabledPluginsExceptions
Value Name{number}
Value TypeREG_SZ
Default Value

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