311491 - Can't install the ActiveX control

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229098

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: ActiveX Wrapper, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: All

I can't install any ActiveX plugin with FireFox even with the plugin.

We need a new version of Firefox or a working plugin for ActiveX on Firefox at 
least for Windows. It's very urgent !!!!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just launch the page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The ActiveX doesn't install

Expected Results:  
The software ignores the ActiveX

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

WONTFIX ?

For people who knows french, this person is a bad ass troller !

You can read more here :

http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/Firefox_15_continue_son_petit_chemin.htm?vc=1&p=2#vc

Adding activeX to firefox, is like commiting suicide. How many security leaks
and malwares use activeX to shit on users ?

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

Moreover, ActiveX controls are going to be deactived by default with IE7. So why
adding them to firefox ?

Comment 3

[firefoxuser]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Moreover, ActiveX controls are going to be deactived by default with IE7. So 
why
> adding them to firefox ?

No we can choose to accept the ActiveX with one click.

I'am a webmaster and me and many other webmaster are fed up to be forced to 
forbid access to Firefox users.

ActiveX are more and more popular in the web, for example most of legal music 
sites use them.
There's also used by pictures sites for uploading several files.

In the future millions of site will use ActiveX, so FireFox will die if it 
can't load them.

So implementing ActiveX under Firefox is urgent !!!

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229098 ***

Comment 5

[Frederic Bezies]

in answer to comment #3 :

I am a mac user, so your site is not available for me. Moreover, activeX with legal music site ? Why one of 
the biggest - Itunes Music Store - doesn't use it ?

All others sites are providing CRAPPY WMA+DRM music files.

Uploading file ? It could be done in php, and a lot of people with blogs are using blogger, wordpress, or 
any other php+mysql based software.

So open your eyes. Windows IS NOT THE ONLY OS and PCs are NOT THE ONLY COMPUTERS available.

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
<snip>
> In the future millions of site will use ActiveX, so FireFox will die if it 
> can't load them.
> 
> So implementing ActiveX under Firefox is urgent !!!

Its name is "Firefox".