261802 - Chemdraw plugin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Wilson Rao]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

I have a application that uses a Chemdraw plugin (ActiveX). I have read
documentation where Chemdraw plugin works for Mozilla, so I am assuming that it
works for Firefox as well. The Browser fails to find the plugin, I tried copying
the DLLs into the plugin directory and restarting the browser/machine. None
work. The plugin I am trying to us is Chemdraw plugin 7.2.3. The code will
usually be like this;

<script language="JavaScript"> cd_insertObjectStr("<embed src='Test.cdx'
align='baseline' border='0' width='400' height='300' type='chemical/x-cdx'
name='cdp' id='2' >"); </script>
 
The "cd_insertObjectStr" is a script that Chemdraw provides, it is available to
the application. But this does not work with Firefox. How do I install this for
this browser. I really like this browser and want to use it and recommend to the
 place where I work. Any help would be appreciated.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Nothing really, if you have the plugin installed. The Chemdraw plugin has a
demo page that you can use.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The browser cannot find or understand the plugin. No operations then work on 
that page. Clicking on any buttons, etc do not work. The browser hangs.

Expected Results:  
Shown the chemical structure using the plugin

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Firefox does NOT have Acive-X.
There is an extension for it though.
If the 2 work together, well you can always try.
Make sure to backup your profile before you do.
If things don't work out you can simply use your backup profile

Comment 2

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

This is most likely a problem with Chemdraw instead of Firefox, but at the least
it's not a critical bug.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Chemdraw says it works in Mozilla, not a Mozilla issue.