Mozilla ActiveX Project Updated for Firefox 1.0

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All of these plug-in and activex projects confused me. So I scanned it over, and I think this is a good summary of what these are. There are 3 things discussed on that site. Number 2 is the one that was recently updated for Firefox 1.0 only. Correct me if I have any of this wrong?

1) Mozilla ActiveX Control. This is for embedding the Mozilla HTML rendering engine in non-Mozilla applications as an ActiveX control. This has nothing to do with the application Firefox, only with the more general Mozilla HTML rendering engine. (The version tied to the Suite version)

2) Plug-in For Hosting ActiveX controls. This a Netscape/Mozilla plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox to make ActiveX controls work in Mozilla/Firefox. This is the one that looks like it might make Mozilla/Firefox inherit the security problems of ActiveX.

3) ActiveX Control For Hosting Plug-ins. This an ActiveX control for Internet Explorer to make Netscape/Mozilla plug-ins work in Internet Explorer. (Because Microsoft removed this capability in recent versions of IE)

(Argh, I have returns here to make this more readable but they're getting stripped!!)

All of these plug-in and activex projects confused me. So I scanned it over, and I think this is a good summary of what these are. There are 3 things discussed on that site. Number 2 is the one that was recently updated for Firefox 1.0 only. Correct me if I have any of this wrong?

1) Mozilla ActiveX Control. This is for embedding the Mozilla HTML rendering engine in non-Mozilla applications as an ActiveX control. This has nothing to do with the application Firefox, only with the more general Mozilla HTML rendering engine. (The version tied to the Suite version)

2) Plug-in For Hosting ActiveX controls. This a Netscape/Mozilla plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox to make ActiveX controls work in Mozilla/Firefox. This is the one that looks like it might make Mozilla/Firefox inherit the security problems of ActiveX.

3) ActiveX Control For Hosting Plug-ins. This an ActiveX control for Internet Explorer to make Netscape/Mozilla plug-ins work in Internet Explorer. (Because Microsoft removed this capability in recent versions of IE)

(Argh, I have returns here to make this more readable but they're getting stripped!!)

All of these plug-in and activex projects confused me. So I scanned it over, and I think this is a good summary of what these are. There are 3 things discussed on that site. Number 2 is the one that was recently updated for Firefox 1.0 only. Correct me if I have any of this wrong?

(Argh, I have returns here to make this more readable but they're getting stripped!!) All of these plug-in and activex projects confused me. So I scanned it over, and I think this is a good summary of what these are. There are 3 things discussed on that site. Number 2 is the one that was recently updated for Firefox 1.0 only. Correct me if I have any of this wrong? 1) Mozilla ActiveX Control. This is for embedding the Mozilla HTML rendering engine in non-Mozilla applications as an ActiveX control. This has nothing to do with the application Firefox, only with the more general Mozilla HTML rendering engine. (The version tied to the Suite version) 2) Plug-in For Hosting ActiveX controls. This a Netscape/Mozilla plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox to make ActiveX controls work in Mozilla/Firefox. This is the one that looks like it might make Mozilla/Firefox inherit the security problems of ActiveX. 3) ActiveX Control For Hosting Plug-ins. This an ActiveX control for Internet Explorer to make Netscape/Mozilla plug-ins work in Internet Explorer. (Because Microsoft removed this capability in recent versions of IE)

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(Argh, I have returns here to make this more readable but they're getting stripped!!) All of these plug-in and activex projects confused me. So I scanned it over, and I think this is a good summary of what these are. There are 3 things discussed on that site. Number 2 is the one that was recently updated for Firefox 1.0 only. Correct me if I have any of this wrong? 1) Mozilla ActiveX Control. This is for embedding the Mozilla HTML rendering engine in non-Mozilla applications as an ActiveX control. This has nothing to do with the application Firefox, only with the more general Mozilla HTML rendering engine. (The version tied to the Suite version) 2) Plug-in For Hosting ActiveX controls. This a Netscape/Mozilla plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox to make ActiveX controls work in Mozilla/Firefox. This is the one that looks like it might make Mozilla/Firefox inherit the security problems of ActiveX. 3) ActiveX Control For Hosting Plug-ins. This an ActiveX control for Internet Explorer to make Netscape/Mozilla plug-ins work in Internet Explorer. (Because Microsoft removed this capability in recent versions of IE)

Comment system working again? I'm almost scared to post this very comment here. Feel free to delete every comment from me after my first one on this post, only the one neatly formatted is worth keeping. - pepp

I tried it, but still FF will not create the GeckoActiveXObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")

Any advice here?

Comment by mik789 at November 21, 2004 10:59 AM | Permalink

I had a small amount of time at work today, and I was wondering about whether anybody had managed to create a method for ActiveX controls to work in Mozilla Firefox.

I'm fully aware that ActiveX is a Microsoft proprietary system, and many peop...

TrackBack from Firefox and ActiveX at February 9, 2005 11:03 PM | Permalink

do u have the plug in for 1.0.1 version please

has anyone tried out MeadCo's Neptune plugin? http://www.meadroid.com/neptune/about.htm

use it to "[e]mbed full Internet Explorer functionality Mozilla, Opera and Netscape browsers running on any windows platform with IE 4.0+ componentry available".

There's an ActiveX extension for Firefox 3.0: http://code.google.com/p/ff-activex-host/

Comment by orip at January 1, 2009 01:12 PM | Permalink