293464 - Office Web Components not supported

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130525

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, enhancement)

Description

[Steven Elferink]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

On location where graphs should be displayed, frame is shown with error message
"Error: Could not load graph. Please verify that the Microsoft Office Web
Components are installed on your computer."

We use ManageSoft for a.o web based hard/software inventory for the European,
Asian and Australian divisions. The missing graphs provide essential
information, so lacking OWC support holds us back migrating to Firefox. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Firefox
2.Install Office Wb Components (XP or 2003)
3.Check web site using this technology.

Actual Results:  
Same error message. 

Expected Results:  
Displayed graphs/toolbars. 

On page 31 of http://www.lulu.com/items/82000/82300/8/preview/preview.pdf is
described what has been done to investigate.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, aren't those 'Microsoft Office Web Components' using ActiveX ? That's
not supported by Firefox. There's an extension that can help though :
<http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows1.html#ActiveX>

Comment 2

[Steven Elferink]

OWC is not ActiveX, it is a local installation. It operates as a com object. 

OWC XP can be downloaded at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=982b0359-0a86-4fb2-a7ee-5f3a499515dd&DisplayLang=en

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #2)
> OWC is not ActiveX, it is a local installation. It operates as a com object. 
> 
> OWC XP can be downloaded at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
> FamilyID=982b0359-0a86-4fb2-a7ee-5f3a499515dd&DisplayLang=en

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010345971033.aspx :

"Office Web Components is a set of ActiveX® controls installed with Office XP"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130525 ***