206587 - ActiveX error cannot create control {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Robert Euston]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.10  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

Full error message is "Could not create control 
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} Check that is has been installed on your 
computer and that this page correcty references it." This error started popping 
up after a failed install of spider.ocx activex control used by the company I 
work for (it is used by the web interface for Test Director). The error comes up 
when accessing a page that uses activex (such as www.advfn.com), stops the 
browser, and will not continue until you hit OK. This can happen several times 
before the page finishes loading. Makes Mozilla usable but intensly irritating. 
I've installed new versions etc, with no change. i think the ActiveX config is 
broken within mozilla, but don't know how to fix. Does not affect Opera or 
Explorer running on same machine. The control listed (000000) is not listed as 
being installed anywhere.
The bug is that a) the control should be removable b) ActiveX controls in 
general are not editable within the browser

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access test director. Spider.ocx will attempt to install
2. error spider.ocx not found. Test director will not run. This is a test 
director fault. (it only works with netscape 4 and explorer)
3. afterward, activex error occurs when accessing www.advfn.com

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
allow you to delete the broken control

can supply config files, screen shots, registry bits etc as required. (i'm a 
professional tester)

Comment 1

[Robert Euston]

Sorry - hit reload button, and an extra bug (#206588) created. Please delete 
this one.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 206588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Adam Lock]

This has already been fixed, but the precompiled plugin on my site has not been
updated for a while because all the code is in a massive state of flux. 

Comment 4

[Robert Euston]

Sorry to re-open this, but I have just upgraded to Mozilla 1.4RC, and this is
still a problem. ie, it is still not fixed.
Why doesn't 1.4rc have the fix? (if indeed it is fixed)

Comment 5

[Adam Lock]

It is fixed, I checked in the fix to not show that particular error a long time
ago. However as I said in comment 3, the binary on my site is old and contains
the issue. It doesn't matter what version of Moz you use with it since the
problem is in that plugin not Moz.

The binary will be updated when I have the time to fix bug 203704. I will also
intend to produce a special version COM connect enabled version of the plugin
for 1.4, but I'm waiting for the final release before doing that.

Comment 6

[Robert Euston]

For anybody who has this problem, I have a fix I worked out myself in the end.
Although Adam has not put the fix into Mozilla's 1.4 install, you can get rid of
it by re-installing the plugin with the following link :
http://mozillako.hypermart.net/activex/
Click in "install activex plugin" - and it will fix the problem. I'm not sure if
the reason this works is because it installs the newer plugin code, but it fixes
the problem I've had for months thats been driving me up the wall.