25.25. The Plugin Object

This section describes an installed plug-in, accessible through the navigator.plugins array. This array gives the plug-ins installed in the browser, not the objects in the current document that require plug-ins; for that information, see the embeds array of Document. Plugin is an unusual object in that it has normal properties and you can index it as an array (remember that JavaScript arrays are really just objects with number-valued property names). Each element of this array is a MimeType object. See Section 24.4 (Using JavaScript to Customize Web Pages) for an example of using Plugin and its associate MimeType objects.

Properties

description This property is a textual description of the plug-in, provided by the plug-in ...

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