My app uses WebKit to display previews of web, and I want to suppress plugins such as the Acrobat one from loading, mainly because of the unreliability it can cause, but als
I don't believe you have direct hooks to the plugins (particularly Netscape-style plugins), but there's another solution that is probably more appropriate and will save your user's download bandwidth. Implement WebPolicyDelegate's webView:decidePolicyForMIMEType:request:frame:decisionListener:
. If it is a distasteful MIME type, send -ignore
to the listener.