How to enable plugins on Safari

If you are using Safari, the excellent application developed by Apple to browse the web, you will find it very useful to know how to enable plugins on this browser, installed by default on Apple operating systems (including mobile devices iPhone, iPad and iPod) but usable for free even for those who want to install it on Windows. Here in a few steps how to enable plugins on Safari.

What are Plugins?

When we talk about plugins, we intend to refer to a real program, which works in synergy with a software that incorporates it and contains it, so to speak, inside it. Each plugin is absolutely ” dependent ” on the basic software platform and – not being able to operate autonomously – is bound to the task of adding functionality and particular performance to the software that underlies it.

In this case, the Safari web browser without a plugin is not implemented for the maximum of its operational capabilities and depending on the sites you visit. It may show panels with a placeholder symbol that invites to install and enable the reference plugins.

Safari allows you to configure the plugins in a personalized way, leaving the user the freedom to install them at will for all websites or only for some specific sites.

Enable Safari plugins for Mac systems

The procedure to enable plugins is still very simple. If you are using a Mac, launch the Safari web browser and point the mouse over the word ” Safari ” at the top left. Click and in the menu that opens choose ” Preferences ” and then ” Security “.

Now you will see that the tab shows below the item ” Internet Plugin – Allow plugins ” with a box that can be activated and deactivated as desired. Check the box to allow the plugins and then, always looking at the same window, click on the top tab ” Extensions ” and check that there is the lever at the top moved to the item ” Active ” instead of ” Disable “. Restart Safari and you’re done.

Enable Safari plugins for Windows systems

If you have a PC with Windows operating system, and you are using Safari to browse the web, here is the quick and easy procedure to enable the plugins. Start Safari and click on the gear icon at the top right-hand side of the mouse.

Now, in the menu that opens, search for ” Preferences ” and click on it. You will see a tabbed window appear: if you scroll from left to right, you will find the item ” Extensions ” and clicking on it you simply have to move the lever you see in the bar at the top to the ” Active ” position. At this point, all you have to do is close this window and restart Safari. That’s all.