285916 - ActiveX Errror: appears when loading any page or refreshing any page on site

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[aa2300]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

The message reads : 
"Could not creat the control [0000000-000-000-000-00000000], check that it has
been installed on your computer and that the page correctly refrences it."


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Vist almost any URL like one given above and the error will occur
2. clicking "OK" on the error 3 or 4 times will allow you to view the page
3.

Actual Results:  
Page loads

Expected Results:  
Load the web page without error or give more details on what or where to look
for the problem or how to disbale the feature causing it.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

"League does not exist" page is all i see after visiting that link

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

->General

Comment 3

[aa2300]

Will get screen shot.  The URL given was the page I was accessing at the time. 
That league is currenly deleted or you need a username password.  However you
will still receive the error when attempting to load the following
http://leagues.espnvideogames.com

Comment 4

[Rick Martin]

Attachment: ActiveX error on refresh

ActiveX error on refresh with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Comment 5

[aa2300]

Thats the error.  I do not get error now because I no longer own the PC I was
getting it on. 

Comment 6

[José Jeria]

Are you using the activex plugin?

Comment 7

[Doug Nommisto]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Are you using the activex plugin?

I have had this problem for the past few weeks and decided to search for the 
answer on the mozilla site. I just downloaded and reinstalled version 1.06 of 
firefox but that did not fix the problem. Since I had been using firefox for 
quite some time before the problem started I assume I had all that was needed 
to display activex components. A few weeks ago I installed some complex QA 
tools and that's when the problem started. I don't know if that software was 
the causing agent or just a coincidence. 

It appears that the browser is provided an activex component to display and 
that generates the error. When you click past the error the component proceeds 
to display and work normally as well as everything else on the page. It's just 
very annoying. 

I'd be happy to test any solution that someone may offer.

Comment 8

[Doug Nommisto]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Are you using the activex plugin?

I have had this problem for the past few weeks and decided to search for the 
answer on the mozilla site. I just downloaded and reinstalled version 1.06 of 
firefox but that did not fix the problem. Since I had been using firefox for 
quite some time before the problem started I assume I had all that was needed 
to display activex components. A few weeks ago I installed some complex QA 
tools and that's when the problem started. I don't know if that software was 
the causing agent or just a coincidence. 

It appears that the browser is provided an activex component to display and 
that generates the error. When you click past the error the component proceeds 
to display and work normally as well as everything else on the page. It's just 
very annoying. 

I'd be happy to test any solution that someone may offer.

Comment 9

[Brent Holowka]

I also get this problem with many pages, though I am using 1.5 RC2.

I can repro this fairly easily enough if anyone wants to debug it.

I'm wondering if it's related to Java, since I also cannot get and Java apps on sites to work either.

[e-mail]

Comment 10

[José Jeria]

Firefox does not support ActiveX, therefore the error

Comment 11

[aa2300]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Firefox does not support ActiveX, therefore the error
> 

This is true, but results for pages that call for activeX should not error like this.  I would think "Page can not displayed" , or browser loads page but does not display active X components would be the norm.  There are way too many sites online that call on active X for Firefox to error like this by design.

Comment 12

[José Jeria]

I can't see this error message. CAn you please provide exact steps on how to reproduce this?

Comment 13

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

The URL no longer exists. If you're able to reproduce this on another site using Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later with a new profile, please file a new bug with detailed steps.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager