How to show all plugins from Internet Explorer?

Question

I am having some troubles on listing the plugins from IE plugins using Javascript like Panopticlick does. I am using the plugin.name but it does not run on IE

Any suggestions or used code examples? Thank you

Answer 1

navigator.plugins will work for IE 11 but not for earlier IEs. More on IE and plugins can be read here . For earlier IEs, you will need to check for each plugin manually by trying:

try {
   new ActiveXObject('aPluginName');
   return true;
} catch(e) {
   return false;
}

Main problem is, that plugins in IE are ActiveX based, which means each has its own API and there is no way you can check this in a general "catch-them-all" way. I found this link quite helpful.