303436 - ActiveX Error text box is displayed when images (pictures) are loading fomm various www.yahoo.com web pages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ryan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

In the page at http://www/yahoo.com, the initial page image is attempting to
load.  Then a ActiveX Error text box is displayed.  The following text is
displayed in the ActiveX Error text box; "Could not create the control
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. Check that it has been installed on your
computer and that this page correctly references it."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.yahoo.com/
2. when the page attemts to load, the ActiveX Error text box is displayed.

Actual Results:  
The ActiveX Error text box is displayed.

Expected Results:  
the www.Yahoo.com web page should load without the ActiveX Error text box.

OS: Windows 2000 Professional
   Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
Browser: Firefox 
   version 1.0.6 
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Firefox doesn't support ActiveX

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

As per comment 1 this is invalid as firefox doesn't support activeX.