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which plugins from RealNetworks are unnecessary

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Which of the following plug-ins from RealNetworks can I disable?

RealDownloader Plugin 1.3.0.208 RealPlayer Download Plugin 16.0.0.282 RealPlayer G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) 16.0.0282 RealPlayer HTML5VideoShim Plug-In (32-bit) 15.0.6.14 RealNetworks Rhapsody Player Engine 1.0.2.603 RealNetworks RealDownloader HTML5VideoShim Plug-In (32-bit) 1.3.0.208 RealNetworks RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In (32-bit) 1.3.0.208

Which of the following plug-ins from RealNetworks can I disable? RealDownloader Plugin 1.3.0.208 RealPlayer Download Plugin 16.0.0.282 RealPlayer G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) 16.0.0282 RealPlayer HTML5VideoShim Plug-In (32-bit) 15.0.6.14 RealNetworks Rhapsody Player Engine 1.0.2.603 RealNetworks RealDownloader HTML5VideoShim Plug-In (32-bit) 1.3.0.208 RealNetworks RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In (32-bit) 1.3.0.208

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You can easily enable those plugins in case you want to this feature again.

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if you don't depend on their functionality you can disable all of them...

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I use is Real Player to play stuff, but I don't know if it needs any of these plug-ins.

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i think it's safe to disable all of them at first - once a site really depends on one of those plugins to display content, then you should get a plugin icon on the left of the address bar that indicates which exact plugin is missing once you click on it.

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Plugins with Download in the name are only needed when you want to use RealPlayer to download media files, so you can disable those in the RP preferences or in "Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Plugins".

  1. RealPlayer Download Plugin
  2. RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader PepperFlashVideoShim Plug-In
  3. RealNetworks(tm) RealDownloader HTML5VideoShim Plug-In
  4. RealDownloader Plugin

The others are used for playing media files embedded on web pages.

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If these are disabled, how will future downloads occur?

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Are you using RealPlayer to download media files from web pages that this plugin supports?

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Not usually, but I have in the past

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You can easily enable those plugins in case you want to this feature again.