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.

List of exceptions to the list of disabled plugins

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\DisabledPluginsExceptions
Value Name	{number}
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value