disable specific plug-ins

disable specific plug-ins

Hello.

I am trying to get Opera (10.10) to show an download box everytime it encounters an .pdf file-type link, instead of opening the .pdf file inside Opera via an plug-in used by Firefox!

Have opened tools>preferences>advanced tab>downloads option and gone through EVERY file-type associated with Adobe .pdf and changed it to show download dialogue box, but it's still opening .pdf in the browser via firefox plug-in! (I Haven't closed browser and re-opened yet, so maybe thats the problem?)

Is there a way to make sure it does what I ask (incidentally, the box to choose default program and browse for the default application - if not found -is not "in use" even when I click/tick the option to!), i.e. show an dialogue box asking what to do instead of just opening it within browser? Can I go deep within the opera:config for an additional option there? or double-check it has been checked!

or some tweak within an .ini file?

I know, sometimes, that if the user "hides" the firefox plug-ins folder prior to installing Opera, then Opera won't find it, (which is annoying trait btw - have an separate plug-ins folder - which you have - and use that Opera!)

PLEASE don't ask me to update to 10.53+ because it has NO option for disabling java independantly, for each site, if desired, (or keep java enabled but other plug-ins disabled!) and until that option is put back, will not be using it.

Have done an quick search of forum for "disable plugins/plug-in/plug-ins" which didn't produce results, so hence my query here.

thanks in advance...

UPDATE:

Hmmmm.

Just re-checked an link, which was .pdf, and now it DOES open download dialogue box. strange. took about an hour to take effect, despite me going through EVERY filetype associated with Adobe and checking option to download, then closing preferences panel.
Also, when went through them again, even though I had selected download dialogue box, it had changed back to using the plug-in!
Have now "told" Opera browser to ignore ALL plugins in Firefox via plugins.ini as an pre-caution.